Not the kids — the devices. Specifically, the social media programs. Australia has decided that the harm caused to young people by apps like TikTok, Instagram, SnapChat and all the rest far outweigh their benefits. Should kids be kept away from social media? And perhaps more to the point: CAN THEY be kept away from social media?
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I absolutely loathe these phones. They are turning all kids into retards. BUT, social media has proven a valuable tool to conservatives trying to break through the firewall that is government-backed education. Could this law be a way to ensure that the popular opinion among young people can only be the State opinion?
Addressed this issue awhile back. Asked my grandsons “Which of you will be the first to suicide yourself from being brainwashed by those things?”
Still ask them once a week or so to keep them aware that they are being used by big electronic media.
To your comment on “Were are your kids tonight?” I remember hearing about one of those efforts in the 1970s, I think it was in NYC. They found more kids home who didn’t know where their parents were.
What the &(#** is this … ads popping up mid-video?? Where is what I was looking at????
I was thinking the same thing. I thought this was a membership perk but apparently things are a changing. Backstage episode shows up on YouTube for all the world to see. I guess BWN may be starting to chase the benjamins.
See my reply to Ron SAE.
RA is hosted at Rumble. If you are seeing ads, it is your settings that are allowing/driving that. Not anything Bill is doing from a loading the video standpoint.
Every once in a while my pop up blockers need a refresh to get rid of the ads.
The member known as ACTS has posted a few times on how to maintain ad free viewing.
Yeah, and the last time I really dug into the problem my ol’ buddy Scowlin’ Nate picked a pointless fight with me over it. So I’m not doing that anymore. No good deed goes unpunished. I suppose it’s too much to ask that if Nathan doesn’t like how I do things he steps up and tries to help people. I’m highly confident that the ads which occasionally run on billwhittle.com member areas are not intentionally placed here by Bill and whatever staff may be. The ads are transient, they come and go. Some people see them, some do not. Even… Read more »
Opinions? What Bill said, ditto. Age limits on booze, drugs, porn, sex, cigs, work, soldiering, driving a car, buy a gun, vote, even movies exist for overall good & safety. That said, kids will find a way around limits – given time, effort and persistance. As such, the lazy, spineless, “I want to be your freind” parents (& obviously not politicians) cannot be trusted to prevent access to material that most folks find totally offensive/dangerous to their child’s life and mental state. Therefore, I’d be fine with limited gubmint (sadly, a part of society) targeting of ‘sources’ via public scorn… Read more »
a phone that is JUST a phone, for minors that meets these standards, NO TEXTING, NO PICTURES. just 5 numbers; ambulance, fire department, mom, dad and police in this order. video for recording crimes. only fans is a pyramid scheme. Bill you forgot to mention NOT mutilating themselves. my family went hunting I was 10/11 and my sister is younger. guns are NOT the problem bad parents are a problem. when ANY website asks for access to your camera THOSE companies are a problem.
More nearly indecipherable gibberish. Has anyone ever pointed out to you that for someone who claims to have a Doctorate degree (still laughing at that one) you write like a spastic first grader? Oh, wait … Why yes, this HAS been brought to your attention before. By me. You know, don’t you, that after the things you’ve posted in here … If you told us the sky was blue and the night was dark we’d have to go to a window and check just to be certain. Because you, Komrade lil’ Kommie Donny, are full of more shit than a… Read more »
It has always been the case that children were allowed a thing until that thing proved detrimental to them. Then they were denied that thing until they were old enough to be considered responsible for their own actions. It’s not that the thing is “bad” for human beings though that may well be the case. It’s that children do not have the life experience to make informed choices and accept consequences. It’s the difference between you doing something to yourself or having something done to you. Good examples are the consumption of tobacco and alcohol, control of deadly weapons and… Read more »
I’m 81 years old. I was brought up in rural Wisconsin. When I was 14 years old, I walked into a sporting goods store in Antioch, IL. and purchased a 20guage shotgun with lawn mowing money. All my friends owned shotguns. One of my friend’s father owned a sporting goods store and he took in used guns as trade-ins for new ones. My friend would bring the trade-in guns, mostly rifles, to school and set them at the back of the room during class. At the end of the day he would go to the local garbage dump to test… Read more »
I grew up in rural Minnesota so pretty much the same situation. My high school physical education class had a trap shoot before hunting season every fall. One week of trap shooting. We all brought our own shotguns, which we left in our unlocked cars and retrieved before class and returned them afterwards. Those that didn’t drive to school brought them on the bus and left their guns in the P.E. teacher’s office. Also unlocked. During hunting season I ALWAYS had a shotgun, a .22 rifle and a varmint rifle in my car and would go “road hunting” before and… Read more »
Different locale, similar stuff. I was born in the Bronx and grew up in the NYC suburbs. Our HS had a rifle team up until my sophomore year. The number of cars with guns outnumbered the ones without. Lots of guys went hunting right after school. These were all kids whose dads had been in the military either during WWI or right after into Korea. Vietnam was ongoing. We all knew how to handle firearms. And yes, no one thought about going to get a gun out of their car when the inevitable fight came up. It was man to… Read more »
Yeah, my Dad fought in Korea so your observation is applicable. “Man to man in the most primitive way” … If I decided someone had an ass whuppin’ coming they were going to get it. Or they were going to give it. I never claimed that I won every fight but fight I would regardless. Even then, giving or getting, NO ONE thought about actually killing the other guy to “win”. Most fights ended in something that looked suspiciously like a draw. It not only didn’t occur to anyone to grab a gun, when a sufficient quantity of whup ass… Read more »
“Road hunting”?
You hunted roads? You can’t eat roads, can you? And having a road as a trophy wouldn’t work.😜
Ok, I couldn’t resist, and I’m not sorry. I really did know what you meant even without quotes. It would have bugged me if I hadn’t done this.
Man, my sense of humor is weird. 😏
I enjoy it, and all who read things like this do too.
I’m no defender of social media platforms or their corporate owners.
This idea, as well as similar, is ridiculous. “Responsible” media sites will do their best to comply but other sites, way less interested in complying will arise.
Bad money drives out good money.
Governments, given the poor quality of those in charge, can barely deal with their core responsibilities. Don’t layer unnecessary, albeit laudable goals, onto their feeble shoulders.
high praise for Steve who along with his life partner, decided to be the “Parents” of the wonderful gifts GOD entrusted them with. What a unique and strange idea in the 21st century. Semper Fidelis
Life partner? Don’t you mean “wife”?
Yeah, that kind of threw me too …
yes I did mean wife but when I say life partner, I mean wife for life and not just one of many wives. I intended to compliment Steve and his wife for their 60 year marriage in advance.
Ah, now that makes sense. I thought you were in the camp of people who say things like “birthing person” and that seemed somewhat out of character for you.
The cat’s out of the bag. The leadership of the parents is going to be tested and, from my Pollyanna-addled brain, the need for a weekly remembrance of our moral core – read; Church attendance – will need to be rediscovered. Children will need to have a base that makes the evil on the Internet repulsive to them. There will be temptation galore, surely, but betting on government regulation is silly. How’d Prohibition go? The War on Drugs? How dumb is it that (previously) Great Britain sends Bobbies to potentially arrest people who post things they find “mean” and “toxic”?… Read more »
Thank you. Yours is so far the best opposition response to this latest bad opinion of Bill and Scott. Such opinions are too reminiscent of the “religious right” that gained political power/influence in the 80’s. More government mandates and control are not the proper answer to the burgeoning immorality, unethical behaviors and uncivil discourse in our society. Unfortunately, all sides of the political spectrum wish to censor the views of their opposition, and “do it for the children” has historically been an effective tool to accomplish those ends. It’s just another “inch” toward the proverbial mile that we will relinquish… Read more »