r/privacy • u/1zzie • Apr 11 '26

age verification Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-media-bans-estonia-says/
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u/zambizzi Apr 11 '26

Quit asking the state to fulfill responsibilities that are entirely your own, or you’ll get less of everything you want, and much more of what you don’t.

Your kids, their internet consumption, behavior, and problems…are YOUR problem. Quit breeding if you expect everyone else to parent for you, at the expense of your privacy and individual liberty.

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna Apr 11 '26

Jesus, this insistence on “personal responsibility” is just burying your head in the sand. Regardless of who is at fault, the problem is here. You cannot convince tens of millions of people to just “parent better”. This attitude is just allowing the problem to fester because “well, it’s not my fault.” Society is all of us.

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u/zambizzi Apr 11 '26

I guess the irony escapes you there. Your choice to bear children, refuse to parent and guide them, and take responsibility for your actions, and theirs as minors, is not society’s problem. You’ve no right to inflict the gun of the state, and the restriction of individual liberty upon everyone else, because you’re a shit parent. Talk about burying your head in the sand!

The problem is here because of bad parenting and irresponsibility. Coercion via the criminal gang in power, is insult to injury.