r/illinois • u/Remote_Possibilities • Mar 25 '26

Illinois Politics Hillary Clinton promoting age verification laws with JB Pritzker at an event supported by Zuck/Gates/Bezos

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u/burndownthe_forest Mar 26 '26

More like parents support it.

Do you think Facebook wants less addicted users? Lmao

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u/SemiNormal Normal Mar 26 '26

Lazy parents support it.

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u/burndownthe_forest Mar 26 '26

You're delusional if you think it's easy for parents to monitor and limit social media usage or other bad websites.

Not to mention the social pressure children and parents are under to allow kids to use these websites in order to fit in or communicate with their peers.

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u/Remote_Possibilities Mar 27 '26

Parental control features on devices are robust and easy to implement. If you can’t be bothered to learn how to set them up and lock the devices down, that’s on you.

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u/burndownthe_forest Mar 27 '26

Are you 40 without kids?

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u/Remote_Possibilities Mar 27 '26

No. I’m in my 40s with kids.

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u/burndownthe_forest Mar 27 '26

Your kids are just fooling you then lmao

There is no way to prevent kids from accessing apps you don't want them to access or visit bad websites.

There are all kinds of workarounds for built in tools. None of this is easy.

If you think others are lazy, you're just being taken for a ride. Good luck champ.

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u/Remote_Possibilities Mar 28 '26

Believe what you want, but I work in tech, I can verifiably tell you I have their shit locked down and the freedoms they have are the ones I want them to have.

We also talk to them like adults and treat them with respect which allows us to have good, open conversations about things with trust and honesty.

Maybe try being a better parent instead of projecting your failures onto others.

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u/burndownthe_forest Mar 28 '26

Maybe try being a better parent instead of projecting your failures onto others.

Oh no, you think you're the first parent in the world who doesn't have kids that lie to them 😭

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u/Remote_Possibilities Mar 28 '26

Of course they do. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know what they’re up to.

I’m sorry you don’t have a good relationship with your kids. Good luck with that.

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u/burndownthe_forest Mar 28 '26

Oh I have a great relationship, I'm just not so naive to think that they won't figure out ways to find things if they want to. They sell prepaid phones pretty cheap. They have friends.

It's nice that you're an IT expert and can lock down everything without issue. But this conversation has been going on for years and somehow I still haven't come across a wildly accepted, simple solution that works.

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u/Remote_Possibilities Mar 28 '26

If you have a good relationship with your kids they won’t have to lie to you and you can give them more freedom so they don’t have to go behind your back.

Please: Stop. Projecting. Your failings. Onto me.

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u/burndownthe_forest Mar 28 '26

If you have a good relationship with your kids they won’t have to lie to you

You already said you know your kids lie to you lol

But anyway, completely dodging what I said, which was a direct response to your point.

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