NarrativeBear

Bingo! And this is why we need to remind our governments that if this is really about "protecting the children", we should not be sacrificing our own children privacy and safety, in the name of their safety!

Somehow everyone has forgotten about parental controls that have been apart of consumer grade home routers for years.

Parental controls are there specifically to help parents. These settings allow a parent to block everything online only allowing access to approved lists of websites, generaly done through a whitelist or approved websites.

What is missing at a government level is a curation effort of websites, similar to Libraries that classify books by genres and appropriate age levels.

I would propose a government fund where Librarians or similar organizations can start this effort, and make these lists easily accessible within routers for non tech individuals, together with local initiatives and programs for parents that have a interest to learn more.

For power users lists like these already exists curated by public individuals very similar to pihole block lists and whitelists.

This concept would be the most privacy respectful IMO giving parents the most power to parent, while respecting everyone else's privacy online including children.

Phrases like the the West or Middle East make sense when all relative to Great Britain in geography.

The British had colonies all over and the terms like middle east and the west stuck. It's also a reason for the most common world map, the Mercator projection.

Don't forget home routers have something called parental controls.

This would put all the power of online safety back into a parents hands and maintain all privacy online for the general public and ones children as well.

Gemini is a hot pile of garbage.

When I ask Gemini for directions it starts to give me a definition, as opposed to opening maps and showing me the way. If I ask to turn off the lights I get a conversation and I end up walking to the light switch myself.

Yo mama SOOOOO fat, that when she jump up in the air.....she get stuck!

Is there a Mafia in Chicago?

If I were to send a physical letter written in code that can only be decrypted with a cipher would I now be breaking the law?

What about radio or telephone conversations in code?

Can I still password protect my zip files or encrypt my NAS or PC before boot?

As a Canadian that enjoys going to Cuba occasionally for holidays, I hope my government does the right thing and send support to Cuba.

The Cuban public are wonderful people and don't deserve what the US is doing to them by blocking Venezuela from exporting any oil to Cuba.

Like a meat popsicle

I believe the point you brought forward with it being more secure is exactly why it's asked for in a academic environment.

With a single staple a page in a 10 page report could be attributed to accidentally falling out, where with a spiral bound set its less likely a page will "mysteriously disappear". A student will also less likely as to resubmit a paper because "a page was missing".

For one a law that prevents infinite scroll and another that prevents algorithm that sole purposes is to keep people engaged on the platform.

Home routers have something called parental controls which can help parents block certain websites and platforms at the home network level.

This together with parenting and education of ones children can help, all without sacrificing and giving away our privacy to third party corporations.

At a regional and country level I would suggest a government funded public service similar to a library to index the internet. Similar to how books are classified by age and genres.

These lists can be provided within each home router by defult for easy selection, or made easily available for upload by parents or users into existing routers.

These government funded publicly curated list can help parents offloaded a little of the "curration effort". This can then simply be a setting or toggle in the router setup, applying the proper age appropriate whitelist and blocking everything else that is not on the "approved list". The setup can even help parents classify specific devices on the home network as "child owned" so the list only works for those devices.

This would be the most "privacy respectful" option IMO over things like "age verification" or any other alternatives being suggested by corporate tech firms at the moment.

The tech for this is already here, where we are lacking is:

A government funded public curation effort.
Goverment funded public education campaigns and education programs.
A incentive for router manufacturers to make home router setup as simply and straight forward for non-tech or non power users.

As for power users and tech literate individuals, public lists curated by individuals online already exist. For example Pihole and Adguard lists, these help people block and whitelist websites at the home network level.

Privacy will always be around, the tech and medium always changes but piracy will always remain no matter the product.

Correction, I am a meat popsicle.

LLM are like shuffling a bunch of words in a hat and by some dumb luck pulling out a complete sentence.

This comment chain is a real hole in one.

We have been surround by cars for so long we have forgotten how amazing pedestrianized streets are.

So much so we fight tooth and nail to keep the cars, but once the street is transformed to something like above we absolutely love it and can't see life any other way.

Not to mention pedestrianized streets like these do so much better economically.

But did you factor in all the other things like insurance, oil changes, car washes, property tax for owning a driveway and public street maintenance?

1000 seems like a lot, but you need to factor in insurance, cost of parking, repurchasing fule, windshield washer fluids, oils, cabin air filters, car washes, heated seat subscriptions. It all adds up quickly.

And I know I must be missing stuff in this list as well like maintenance and depreciation of the vehicle as well.

Also parking costs are generally subsidized with city taxes for on street parking, but owning a condo or home with a driveway you could be looking at property tax attached to your home, and in a condo you may need to purchase the parking spot as a separate property.