Technology

Hmmm it appears they understand how evil all the tech companies are, harvesting data to the fullest extent. Spying, influencing, etc.

Does musk even see any of his kids often enough to set rules?

"Our technology is perfectly safe and harmless for all ages!"

"So you would let your own children use it?"

"Nooo. No no no no no no. God no."

The most disturbing part is these ghouls reproduced.

Eat the rich

That's so much Zone of Interest.

YouTube cofounder Steve Chen said at a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business last year that he wouldn’t want his kids consuming only short-form content, noting that it might be better to limit kids to videos longer than 15 minutes.

I hope this is introduced at the LA trial in some form that demonstrates the why.

I should not be amazed, but I still am, at the entire lack of morality that tech entrepreneurs have post dotcom bursting.

I say bullshit, these people aren't involved enough in their kids lives to even know if their "1 hour a day" or whatever rules are happening. Their kids are absolutely doing whatever the fuck they want.

This behavior seems to be very similar to NFL stars and how they never wanted their kids to play football.

Everyone involved knows how dangerous social media/football is and many of them are in positions to actually do something about it. But because it benefits them personally, they won't even rock the boat.

Musk is the most Twitter addicted person I am aware of.

everyone talking about "phone bad" meanwhile im reminded of how abusive parents tend to track and watch everything kids do online. Like have we forgotten all of a sudden these people are extremely linked to the child rapist to end all child rapists???

I'm extremely hesitant to hand it to Thiel, Gates and Elon, especially in anything relating to how children should be treated.

I love how Elon Musk was the sole fuck up in these examples

And they've convinced you that it's a-okay for your kids to be using these products, in full knowledge of the harm they cause.

Never get high on your own supply

That social rot you smell? It’s you. You’re the social rot.

Wow what a surprise. I can't imagine anyone better to know how unsafe something is other than the lead architects themselves.

That should be enough evidence for the rest of the world…

This isn't new. I remember fifteen years ago some Silicon Valley app engineers forbade their children from playing the games that were being developed.

It's because they're engineered to use your psychology against you. This is by design.

I used to work at a "Big Data" company that sold browsing data to a ton of companies. One problem the dev team ran into was that the standard ad-blocking plugins that they'd install on their machines also blocked our stuff, so my support team would have to inform them of bugs.

Lots of fun stories from that job.

First of all these billionaires can afford to replace for their kids; what social media is with actual socialising that is destroyed by fear, nimbyism, and systematic destruction of third places for normal people. that's what private cities and walled off estates are for. They will continue to enjoy the fruits of socialism while selling capitalism for everybody else.

This is not a force to be triffled with or dismissed as so easy to escape from.

Well, they know why. And they know that most of the people are stupid as a stone. This is how they made their money.

Other tech CEOs, including Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Snap’s Evan Spiegel, and Tesla’s Elon Musk, have also spoken about limiting their children’s access to devices. Gates has said he did not give his children smartphones until age 14 and banned phones at the dinner table entirely. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, in 2018, said he limits his child to the same 1.5 hours per week of screen time as Thiel.

Seems like these failures suing them & demanding government paternalism

Yet, as the trials against social media companies continue and country after country moves toward legislating what Silicon Valley’s billionaires have quietly practiced for years

don't know how to effectively limit access/use parental controls as tech CEOs claim to do.

Fucking degenerate assholes, pushing drugs knowing full well how harmful it is.

Half an hour per weekday and an hour on weekends with the switch, plus strict rules on what als can be used. No roblox.

But we flood our kids with books or comics. If they want to read a book, well make it happen

Kids are fine with it. Boredom sparks creativity.

Because they know their kids will have an advantage over the stupefied masses if they can keep them unmezmerizes.

What, Musks too? He's not known to have much to do with family.

There's gotta be a modern version of Fortunate son brewing somewhere with a cybertruck whizzing sound as the intro.

Tech lords are among the most hated people on the planet.

"Dad, why people think you're a self absordeb, pathetic, nazi snowflake???"

banned phones at the dinner table entirely

I would everyone is doing this. Sitting down to eat together once a day and talk isn't something only billionaires can afford.

Duh. You think the CEO of Kraft feeds his kids mac and cheese from a box?