Remember to thank generative AI for these console prices btw. The next gen of Xbox and PS will probably be even worse. It's bleak, all because of some predatory unethical tech that is destroying the planet
BTW if this passes the internet is as good as dead, your privacy will disappear and anything you say on it will be used against you despite free speech
it’s genuinely despicable that germany can invest 35 billion (€) into “space defense” while simultaneously cutting down disability aid, retirement funds and the social state as a whole cause we need to “save money” ok
I can’t fully explain to younger people how cool the internet used to be. We had open forums, personal websites, weird experimental pages, and chaotic corners of the web, before Amazon, Google, and Meta turned it into a sterile, closed ecosystem of clutter, and commerce.
a lot of these parents cheering for the under 16s social media ban are also the same ones that shoved their kids in front of an ipad all the time since they were toddlers so they’re going to be in for a shock when theyre now forced to deal with the consequences of that
“As a mum it keeps me up at night thinking about how my child will use the phone I gave her without setting any parental controls.”
If you can’t parent, that’s not our fault.
"Stare at a wall" is so apt bc there is literally nothing for kids to do here anymore. Parks are for young children, so teens get chased out, everything is super expensive so you can't go on a day out, and there's precious little nature left to explore.
Thats all you can do.
This mean students up to Year 11 will not be able to revise GCSE biology on Freesciencelessons YouTube channel.
This also mean a 15 years and 364 days old not be able to read Facebook posts from their MP or councillor, but expected to vote for them tomorrow.
The Royal Society for Blind Children and the National Deaf Children's Society have both come out against the Starmer social media ban.
"Internet bad" is a trendy, upper-middle-class opinion for people with extracurricular budgets that ignores legions of people who rely on it.