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[-] gon@lemmy.world 175 points 1 year ago

A classic. So many questions arise from this simple text+image post:

Is this person's child named really "Strairdrac The Netherwatcher"?
Is Strairdrac even human?
Why does Strairdrac want to teach crabs how to read?
Why is it considered forbidden knowledge?
What other knowledge is forbidden?

We will never have all the answers. Still, the questions are themselves a sort of answer.

[-] esadatari@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

to know all the answers is… forbidden knowledge

[-] goddard_guryon@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 year ago

Strairdrac is three crabs in a trenchcoat, now teaching others of his kind how to blend in with humans

[-] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Crab people

Taste like Crab, walk like people

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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 161 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago

Kids need access to the internet at a super young age these days for school. If you don't have some sort of filter in place when they are in single digits or tweens you are just negligent. The internet has some dark corners.

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 35 points 1 year ago

I don't mind just filters, but reporting it to the parent doesn't sit right with me. It probably depends on the parent though

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[-] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 26 points 1 year ago

Harder the surveillance, harder the kid works to bypass them

Kids are smart, good on OOP to teach their kids to use a VPN, about dual booting, and more

[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

If the kid is old enough to purposely bypass the security, they're probably around the right age to find some of the stuff on the other side. But you don't want them accidentally stumbling into it because they searched something seemingly innocent.

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[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

And the proper way is to teach your kids about it and stop treating kids like super fragile glass beings.

Your city probably has some dark corners too, but you don't set up geofenced tracking beacons to be alarmed if they stumble slightly off the path you intended them to go.

Children should feel comfortable enough to talk to you about bad stuff they encounter, not feel frightened, that they broke a rule.

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By the time I was 17, at least on my windows PC, every search I made was reported. Every setting I touched was reported. Every app I use, and how long, reported. Every startup and shutdown reported. Games with chat features were banned. Online games were banned. Every week on Sunday, an email with all this went to my parents, and my dad would forward it to me as a kind of intimidation that "we know all"...

And yes, they used geofenced tracking too.

But I'm a geek, so my Linux laptop and phone were no longer bugged (my only access to other people at the time) by the time I figured it out (around age 16).

Still had to turn the tracker on so they wouldn't ask why the location pings stopped though.

This kind of obsessive control ought to be illegal. I propose privacy rights at age 16, enforceable by fines, with a safe hotline for those with obsessive parents. They were emotionally abusive, control by external restrictions is often only part of the story in cases like mine.

I'm all for safety filters, but parental controls that can be classified as spyware have no place in a parent-child relationship after the age of 16...

[-] Rukmer@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

If you use these trackers and barge in "hey I saw what you did on the internet, you're in trouble." then you're doing it wrong. Kids need guidance. If you were negligent enough to let your kid roam the city without supervision, you SHOULD have a tracker on them. We're talking about little kids not 16+. Many young kids get themselves killed or groomed or into some kind of cult online. When that happens to young kids, parents are negligent. When 12 year olds get addicted to porn, negligence. You can guide your children without being an asshole. I know a lot of us grew up either completely neglected or completely terrified to make a mistake, but there is an in-between.

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

When I look outside, there are 5 year olds playing without supervision. They get along just fine.

Not every country is a paranoid dystopia.

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[-] Solaris1789@jlai.lu 15 points 1 year ago

Even worse using kaspersky...

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[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 158 points 1 year ago

I get the "haha" of this particular search getting reported on...but I think that this sort of surveillance is definitely stepping into creepy territory that will end up doing more harm than good.

There were definitely web searches I performed about topics back when I was younger that I would never want my parents to know. When you live in an oppressive household where you are taught never to think outside of the box or be anything your parents don't want you to be, having the internet available is supposed to be a path to liberation.

If they want to set up filters that block certain results, fine. But tattling is just unethical, especially if the child does not know their search history is being monitored by their parents.

[-] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

It's perfect conditioning to accept authoritarian rule, and constant surveillance as normal.

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

if only there was a Black mirror episode about the dangers of being an overbearing parent.

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[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 13 points 1 year ago

This sort of oppressive situation is my childhood in a nutshell. And you're right, it's entirely unethical, and in combination with other factors can be used as a factor in psychological abuse. I know I at least am traumatized from it, and surveillance was definitely one of many signifigant factors.

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[-] Rac3r4Life@lemmy.world 114 points 1 year ago

When I was a kid (way too many years ago) my parents gave up trying to restrict my Internet usage because no matter what they did I could easily get around it. I knew more about networking than they did. Then I grew up to become an IT administrator.

[-] Countless@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago

The question is,will you be able to restrict YOUR kids?

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

See instead of blacklisting websites you whitelist instead

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[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago

Don't restrict but rather educate and guide them. I would probably fail but hey: I tried.

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[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My mom asked my uncle to restric access.
I researched how to unblock it during my time :)
Was seemingly IP-based and the router probably just created an DHCP reservation for my device. Changing IP to static and done. They should do it via MAC. And even that is useless nowadays.

Edit: Also work in IT now.

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[-] mithbt@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I didn't restrict my kids Internet access, but I did tell them that even though I'm not tracking everything they're doing online, the ISP, the school, upstream providers, search engines, social medias, advertisers, and pretty much everyone else will be.

[-] froh42@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I gave my kids completely open internet access and just chose to talk with them on what they might encounter. If I'd locked their devices, they'd just went online at a friend's place.

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[-] SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

And this is why kids should grow up with increasingly restrictive parental control software. It's educational.

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[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 110 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stolen (fair use) from https://rustacean.net

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Illegal crab learning, alerting the authorities

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[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 105 points 1 year ago

Dudes remove that spyware from your Networks omg

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

I should hope so. You want the crabs taking over?

[+] maxcharacterlimit@reddthat.com 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] jungekatz@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

It sure is forbidden knowledge , what if the crabs take our jobs next !

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

I had less problems with my childs long before internet

[-] Lexam@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago

Forbidden knowledge. Oooh.

[-] lunaticneko@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Too late.

CRAB PEOPLE CRAB PEOPLE!

[-] boratul@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

"Straidrac The Netherwatcher" is quite a curios kind

[-] tunahanyilmaz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Literally 1984

[-] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

You have learned the forbidden knowledge of the crab people.

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[-] Cannizzaro@feddit.ch 16 points 1 year ago

This isn't even funny. my parents weren't that tech savvy and i learnt about porn from about 4th grade or so. parents need to be in control of what their children are browsing

[-] OhTheMoose@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Do you feel like you're a worse person for learning about porn at such a young age? I also learned about porn around that age (2nd~4th grade) and I feel like it had no impact on my life whatsoever as an adult.

The funny part of the post is referring to "teaching crabs how to read" as "forbidden knowledge"

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[-] krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago

Is this a joke about rust?

[-] ChargedBasisGrand@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

computer spyware taught me not to trust computers, my parents, or corporations
it also taught me how to format drives and reinstall operating systems

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