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asmi:
Whenever politicians start talking about children, you'd better watch your pockets.
Zero999:
Heck, it's possible for pictures of clothed people, with the naughty bits covered, to be pornographic. Sexually suggestive poses, tight fitting garments, allowing the body shape to be seen, hands or objects placed down their pants etc.
Pornography is simply material created with the sole intention of causing sexual arousal. It can be pictures, video, writing etc. Whether something is pornographic or not is somewhat subjective, but most people know it when they see it.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: asmi on July 12, 2023, 06:50:37 pm ---Whenever politicians start talking about children, you'd better watch your pockets.
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And when they don't, you'd better watch your children. ::)
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: james_s on July 12, 2023, 06:24:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 12, 2023, 10:17:19 am ---You sound like an HR-droid that treats employees as resources rather than people.
Or a boss that thinks his minions should just obey commands and "don't need to know why".
Or maybe as someone who believes in strong religious doctrines.
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That's quite a lot of assumptions to make about somebody you don't know and have never met based on a single statement.
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I will assume your comprehension skills are reasonable, so I conclude that you speed read so fast that you missed the key words. To aid you, I've highlighted them above. Just to make the point clear to people that don't have English as a first language, my statement was a simile, not metaphor. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/simile defines similie as "a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as"
Now, do you have any response to my more interesting points and questions? Viz:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 12, 2023, 10:17:19 am ---[My daughter] decided when it was appropriate for her. I was going to leave it another year or two, but she took the initiative. That was fine, and the alternative would have been far far worse for the reasons I outlined above.
Things don't happen according to a fixed schedule. Everybody is individual, and that should be understood, accepted, and accomodated.
Many people thought 3yo was too young to learn to read. I didn't have any such preconceptions (of course), so asked my father to teach me and he did. Family lore is that I was reading the daily newspaper before I went to school. Some people thought that was wrong and that I should "just be a normal kid", which I presume means "be like I was".
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My daughter is not me. She is an independent individual, and should be treated as such.
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Do you have children?
It sounds like you have read how to interact with young people from a textbook or newspaper.
Children are not - or should not be - submissive to their parents. They are young people and should be treated as you would treat other inexperienced people. That means
* explaining and guiding, not forcing
* allowing them to jump in at the deep end, but being there to make sure they don't sink. Including, depending on the child's personality, encouraging them to jump in at the deep end
* giving information that is appropriate to their level of experience
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Perhaps the single most revealing answer would be if you told us whether you have (or are responsible for) any children.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 12, 2023, 06:37:51 pm ---What if your daughter decided she wanted crisps, a chocolate bar and ice cream for dinner? Would you say no, or just gave her what she wanted?
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That's not really comparable: one-off education vs potentially repetitive habit.
Nonetheless, I would probably do what my mother did when my brother became interested in smoking (back when smoking was normal and non-smoking exceptional). She bought a pack of fags and let him smoke them all. Naturally he was sick, and became a lifelong non-smoker. Job done.
Forbidding/denying young people something is an excellent way to get them to surreptitiously/furtively investigate something. Not good behaviour on the part of the parent or child, IMHO.
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