Certainly the oligarchic part of the government doesn't want that. But if the government is of the people, then it should. Meta wants people hooked as early as possible. If kids can't access big social media, a competitor will fill the niche or kids will work out how they can run their own infrastructure that can easily do some of the things big social media does. That's a win.
To get around blocks, we just configured the internet connection settings to use a proxy server. Once someone figured that out, word spread and then we all had access to everything.
Kids will always work around blocks. Whitelists don't work because they inevitably block something you need to access and that's frustrating. Blacklists don't work because you can't review every site and everything it does. Even if you can, new ones they shouldn't access are popping all the time. And even if they aren't, it takes one clever kid to run a proxy server at home and give access to the whole school. The adults don't realize that computers and the internet are built like Russian nesting dolls. Inside your site can live the entire damned internet or an NES emulator or an LLM that does your homework or whatever the hell you want. Having internet access means having access to the whole internet. Kids interpret censorship as damage and route around it.
If you squint, you can make the right side look like the left side. Kind of amazing. Instantly increase resolution with this one weird trick.
Shhhh, honey. The telescreen might be listening.
The grass is always greener on the other side.
Jack drowned so that you could live.
ahem I mean froze to death. Jack froze to death. I remember the movie. I'm not losing my marbles.
Q: How many tries does it take for Mr. Incredible to screw in a light bulb?
A: We still don't know. He keeps breaking them.
People think TikTok took off because the algorithm has some magic sauce the other platforms don't. Nope. It's because the content was more authentic because creators couldn't monetize. It was like YouTube in the early days.
Hitler was not a bad guy. He's the guy who killed Hitler.
2018
wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing video games
excited to play some halo 2k19
"xbox on"
...
"XBOX ON"
"Please verify that you are "annon332" by saying "Doritos™ Dew™ it right!"
"Doritos™ Dew™ it right"
"ERROR! Please drink a verification can"
reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k19™ War Chest
only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night
still feeling sick from the 14
force it down and grumble out "mmmm that really hit the spot"
xbox does nothing
i attempt to smile
"Connecting to verification server"
...
"Verification complete!"
finally
boot up halo 2k19
finding multiplayer match...
"ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!"
my mother just walked in the room
"Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?"
"NO!"
"Console entering lock state!"
"to unlock drink verification can"
last can
"WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card"
drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick
pour the last half out the window
"PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE"
the mountain dew ad plays
i have to dance for it
feeling so sick
makes me sing along
dancing and singing
"mountain dew is for me and you"
throw up on myself
throw up on my tv and entertainment system
router shorts
"ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF"
"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"
Reason #1337 to install an ad blocker.