The children's commissioner for England tells the BBC virtual private networks are a "loophole that needs closing.

Being pushed for a technologically illiterate ex headteacher as usual.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    20 days ago

    It’s weird, the world in general is heading in this direction, just seems Britain has been at it for longer. I’ve always wondered why (saw it in the 70’s, it’s just gotten more “normal”). Seems the EU has a strong “safetyism” mindset.

    In the US it seems to come from two directions: litigation when someone gets injured either by an indifferent company or the idiocy of an idiot not following safety protocols, the other being some parents fear everything and want to bubble wrap the world.

    To paraphrase the sheriff in Cool Hand Luke:

    “So you get what we have here today - kids who have no resilience, no ability to cope in the real world. Well, that’s the way these parents want it, so they get it”

    (in the movie, the sheriff is pointing out Luke’s stubborn refusal to understand how things work, and that he has some culpability too).

    • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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      19 days ago

      I’ve always wondered why

      I think the high trust to low trust societal spectrum is a major explanator (1).

      No need to police the other if you believe you’ve, more or less, each other’s best interest at heart. It’s that that’s disappeared.

      UK has always been a thrown together of multiple countries and colonies, with remaining animosity. They’ve been a low trust society (at least at the national level) for longer than other countries have.

      That’s my guess at least.