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2 months agoThe pieces of software the article mentions are:
Meta – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
Snap
Tiktok
YouTube
X
Roblox
Pinterest
Discord
Lego Play
Reddit
Kick
GitHub
HubApp
Match
Steam
Twitch
Sketchy ID verification aside, I agree with everything except for GitHub and YouTube.
YouTube is such a resource for DIY and learning, you just can’t ban kids from it, even if parts of it are sketchy. A restricted mode for kids would be better.
GitHub is also a huge database of knowledge, important for being techy and computer literate, and doesn’t really even have much on the way of social features. Banning this would be asinine.
I was initially against Steam, but then I realized that parents could still buy their kids games, and it’s probably better to force parents to take responsibility for that anyways.
Their coffee isn’t being taken away though, it’s never being given to them in the first place.