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The True Problem, is that an actual-safe-space is required, for kids,
& that costs investment to produce, & to maintain.
We pay for kindergarten & schools to be safe-spaces, don't we?
Children's forming brains require healthy place, right?
Same is required for internet, for them.
So, a "walled garden" with wikipedia ( not the gore-centered stuff, & there seems to be some of that on there ), & TVTropes,
etc, is required for them to develop their minds healthy,
but the only "successful" walled-gardens were made with machiavellian intent, thus-far..
Apple's walled-garden, Microsoft's, AOL's, Google's, etc..
Nobody's done a not-for-profit edition for humanitarian reasons..
Big Tech'd sabotage it any way they could, in order to "prove" it "doesn't work"
( it'll never be seen in Google News, Facebook may well disappear all references to it, Apple wouldn't permit it on their platform's App Store, etc.. )
Exterminating-alternative is required when the stakes are world-possession, right?
NO competitor allowed, right??
Nobody's got the spine to create the required walled-garden which simultaneously gives children
access to meaningful friends
lots of learning opportunities & learning-means
gamefied learning, like projects-done-together on interesting-to-them subjects, with real accomplishings, like Science Fairs can be, irl
systematic stomping of abuse, predators, bullying, etc..
systematic training them in sane privacy-habits, device-health habits ( update your apps weekly! Reboot your device weekly! Use antivirus! )
systematically training all children in critical-thinking, dismantling ideology-programming as completely as possible, from the next-generation
etc.
& if anybody did have the spine, then it'd be force-disallowed by Big Tech.
Humankind waited too long to care, & now the bad-guys own the whole "game", it looks like, to me..
Human children never will know what honest, proper, supportive systematic-development through interesting challenges, & safe growing-up can be, because our-generations wouldn't do what was required, when we had leverage to be able to do it.
"fighting over crumbs" is all that's left, it looks like..
( lobbied "representatives" wouldn't allow world-integrity to violate their owners' interests, either, obviously.. )
Sorry for my bitterness, but I'm old.
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