Cynically mass influencing opinion is immoral. Using automated software to do that is doubly immoral.

The fact that Russians are doing this is not controversial, it is widely documented. Whether they’re doing it here is perhaps questionable, but then again, Lemmy and its APIs are free to use so why wouldn’t they.

I feel like you guys are focusing on the wrong thing in this meme.

Anyone that does this is just trying to indoctrinate their kid and prevent them from being exposed to any other ideas.

Books, magazines and libraries still exist, though.

Nevertheless, I won’t probably be as radical as to completely ban Internet from my two younger kids. But the idea is interesting after seeing via my older kids what an unrestricted access led to.

I’m curious of this as a thought experiment: what do you think the children will miss if they don’t access the Internet before the age of 16? What did the hundreds of generations of children before the invention and spread of Internet lack?

Isn’t WikiLeaks a compromised Russian op now?

Well obviously not, if they’re spilling out alt-right secrets.

And also spying is the best way to lose your kid’s trust.

Well of course tell them that you’re gonna do it. I guess “spying” isn’t the best word then?

I’d like to go against the stream and say that if you let your kids use the internet, spy the fuck out of everything they do in there. At least until they’re something like 16yrs old.

Better yet, don’t let them use the internet.

Does it actually say “forbidden knowledge”?

Even if the leadership of a company is focused on making money, a lot of the organization below that leadership might very well be focused on providing a good service. Which for a food producing company would mean feeding people. A lot of time there’s a synergy between making money and providing a good service.

You could also say that the leadership of a communist country doesn’t care about feeding people, they care about the people not revolting out of hunger. There’s a kind of positive synergy there too.

Did you try to ask yourself why they might be banned in Ukraine? Could it be it’s because they’re in a war against an enemy who was supported by said parties? Also, you seem to have neglected to mention that in the same legislation, nazi symbology was also banned?

What you’re calling “biological sexuality” is really just called “sex” or “sexual identity”.

I’ll just clarify to make sure I got your position right: you are claiming that biological sexuality does not in effect exist?

This seems like an appeal to ignorance. So while I cannot prove that, not being able to prove it doesn’t affect my position.

Not to me, but I wouldn’t think a beauty pageant is important enough to warrant activism or disallowing their freedom to choose their competitors.

Trans women were born a woman.

I don’t think that’s how it works. Biological sexuality is with oneself from the birth, sexual identity happens later in life. And it depends a lot on the individual when that occurs.

edit I’m absolutely amazed to find that there are people who don’t agree with my previous statement, which seems to me completely uncontroversial. Can somebody explain what’s going on? Or am I being downmodded not because people disagree, but because I’m not singing quite in tune with the choir?

trans people are respected

I find it difficult to empathize with this position, because I feel like if other people were forced to treat my every feeling with rubber gloves, I wouldn’t feel respected. I would feel sheltered and overprotected. But I guess this might be different if one had to fear everything, I certainly haven’t had to feel that since high school.

Seems to me like a competition should be allowed to make that distinction. I’m not sure what is being protested here.

WE NEED MORE LINUX

The right wing, climate change denying, Heritage Foundation is not a reliable source

So are you claiming that their methodology is wrong or that they falsify their data? Do you have a better source for similar information?

No one can seriously believe the US to be less “free market” than like half of western Europe.

Care to explain why that is?

By what standard? According to https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking for instance, there are 24 countries in the world with freer economy than USA.

Also indicentally many of those countries are on this list: https://www.yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au/expert-insights/revealed-the-20-happiest-countries-in-the-world-for-2023 – it seems like free economy often correlates with happy society.

Yes yes. And America is not real market economy capitalism either, that’s the only reason why it sucks so much.

Chrome: when a web app I somehow must use supports only Chrome.