Minors & free software - Is it okay for zoomers to be /g/ schizos?

[The Pulverizer]

I think giving them restricted access when they're older is a good starting point. It's like how parents used to give their kids flip phones that could call and (barely) text, but had no internet access and let them fuck around with that before giving them a smart phone. Ideally, parents should teach them the fundamentals of the internet that used to be iron-clad rules before tech companies realized they could make millions selling user data and actively encouraged/enforced real-name policies.

The internet has also become increasingly intrusive and gay. This past decade we've gone from cool flash games and funny videos to troon and corpo worshiping or polisperging. Best you can hope to find is some niche autistic weird corner of the internet where people are actually enjoying themselves. Kids will not look that deep however and will instead just eat up whatever slob comes their way. The internet in its current state just isn't that fun of a place to be in for most kids and adults.

 

[IKOL]

all of you people are fucking retarded

We know. And it's blyatiful.
Now don't stop be retarded, retard. Retardize with us, in the name of Garfield!

 

[Smar Mijou]

Ideally, parents should teach them the fundamentals of the internet that used to be iron-clad rules before tech companies realized they could make millions selling user data and actively encouraged/enforced real-name policies.

That is, the kids should be taught not to use their real names, not to give information about themselves, and to use different emails for work/school stuff than the personal stuff.

I'll just copy my reply from a post from months back here because it's still relevant

I think that poor opsec is usually either a symptom of naivety from older people who don't know any better, think the Clinton E-mail server/password debacle, or younger people who never grew up being taught that "stranger-danger" was a thing on the internet. If you're of a certain age, you almost certainly remember growing up and being taught that you never share your personal information on the internet, lest some scary boogeyman will come and kidnap you, kill your grandma, and steal your dog. To me, seeing the rapid change in how people have just willingly forked over personal information in the past ~15 years has been bewildering. In less than a generation, we went from "Don't tell ANYONE your real name online or you will die in your sleep!" to "LMAO, give us your D.O.B, blood type, and SSN to find out what Harry Potter character you are!". It's sheer lunacy. Social media is definitely the main culprit, but society as a whole seems to have trended in the direction of eschewing privacy away as a trivial subject. With everyone having a cellphone and social media, people are expected to be reachable at all times, and (((The Media))) definitely helps the narrative by portraying people who object to this shit as outliers, some sort of "-theorist", or crazy, and coming up with snarky names or catchphrases when people don't go along with it.

 

[WelperHelper99]

The internet has also become increasingly intrusive and gay. This past decade we've gone from cool flash games and funny videos to troon and corpo worshiping or polisperging. Best you can hope to find is some niche autistic weird corner of the internet where people are actually enjoying themselves. Kids will not look that deep however and will instead just eat up whatever slob comes their way. The internet in its current state just isn't that fun of a place to be in for most kids and adults.

I will agree that the internet is not nearly as fun. It feels like everyone talks the same few sites anymore, mostly social media, and nobody really knows about some games being free because its so old, that you can download to your shitbox college laptop, and it'll run perfectly.

That's the situation I'm in. My laptop has 4 2.4ghz cores in its i5 along with integrated graphics. Most kids think that you can't do shit with that Because they watch their favorite youtubers play cyberpunk, and think every game is that, so why bother looking for stuff? Thing is, you can find a awful lot. My laptop will run Visual Novels, most games from the early 2000's, DVD-ROM extras you occasionally find on used DVD's with a external player, hell, if I pushed it, it could edit video. Very slowly, but it could, just looking at the raw specs. And you can find all this software free or at least very cheap if you decide to look around or ask on a message board or two. The problem is no one looks anymore, they go to Steam immediately, hence the internet not being fun.

 

[Pissmaster]

This image says it all. No comment required.

What is a "middle age regressor"? Sounds like it's a deeply fucked up guy in his 40s trying to pose as a teenage girl.

 

[g55c]

Minors shouldn't be allowed on the Internet.

There are far too many gross troons who are itching to message every under 18 account they can possibly sniff out on Twitter/Reddit/Discord.

 

[Core1036]

Kiwis should rewrite the classic Is Your Son a Computer Hacker? into Is Your Son a Tranny?

Haven't you seen the new one by the NCA? (British FBI)
Attached image for your viewing pleasure.

 

[Fcret]

The internet has also become increasingly intrusive and gay. This past decade we've gone from cool flash games and funny videos to troon and corpo worshiping or polisperging. Best you can hope to find is some niche autistic weird corner of the internet where people are actually enjoying themselves. Kids will not look that deep however and will instead just eat up whatever slob comes their way. The internet in its current state just isn't that fun of a place to be in for most kids and adults.

Yeah, being on the internet as a kid in the 2000s wasn't super great (basically every big forum had that one admin with a weird underage 'friend' that they always seemed a little too friendly with), but for the most part you weren't going to get mindbroken by discord groomers or trannyganda. Social media was only in its nascent form so there wasn't an all-consuming panopticon trying to psyop you. And porn, despite being readily available if you looked, was not literally everywhere. A teenage boy seeing some jpeg tits once or twice is a very different thing than being blasted with loli futa furry brap porn every morning when you login to twitter.

Identity was also fluid. If you started feeling skeeved out by a community, you could just leave and spin up a new username somewhere else. You weren't being tracked across the internet by pink-pilling trannoids who know your full name and where you to go to school.

I don't really want to say it was super great or anything but it was an entirely different sort of environment than the web of the 2020s.

 

[Battlefield42]

He got infected by the 4chan /g/ and /lgbt/ trannies. You need special autism to stay sane on the internet.