Schools do need to cut screen time but that should be in the classroom, not the library where you go to do research on school projects or essays.
How about the fucking parents be parents. What about that??
Libraries are where many folks go to to access government resources. My local DMV (department of motor vehicles) restricted services to by-appointment-only a few years back and, if you needed help making an appointment, their call center directed you to the local library. Note: they did not warn the local libraries they were doing this.
Anyways, you should have seen this asshole come in to get assistance. My co-worker helped him and was polite about it, but told me afterwards that he’d been spearheading the local “defund the library” initiative. Turns out we are good for something even if you buy your own books. Dickhead.
I’m not going to lie, screen time at public school is a concern for me. But that’s an issue with the school district. I still want them to have fucking internet.
Fuck Brandan Carr.
rich corrupt fascligarchs couldn’t care less about your kids’ education, let alone "too much screen time. they need manual laborers from the peasant class, they don’t need a generation of educated adults who have the capacity to form their own opinions regardless of what they’re told to believe
so the answer is simple: label access to information as evil, and then eliminate said access
I downloaded Wikipedia and what archives of the internet I could a couple years ago, I recommend everyone else do the same. They will remove our access to it. Google is already adding rewritten history into it’s ai search results. It will be too late soon.
What things other than Wikipedia do you recommend?
Download a program called Kiwix. From there you can install offline versions of Ted Talk, Stack Exchange, Wikis, tons of guides and forums, project Gutenberg, and SOO much more.
It can then be used as a server from any device (you literally just push a button) which allows you to access your media over your LAN.
The UI is pretty shit but it’s a great program.
Of course it doesn’t have everything. Like I also torrented the Anarchist Library (ironically not offered on their site as a single file, but I found it from a reputable source) and I’ve downloaded some other odd YouTube playlists here and there to keep (IT and homelab tutorials, music mixes, etc).
How big is your file storage for all this?
I fit all of that on a 1TB HDD
Including a bunch of Ted Talk videos with good video and audio.
So, it’s a “service” when they add age verification to every damn thing, but “the nations parent” derogatorily when it’s taking freeform access out of the schools? What the fuck is going on??
Gaslighting narcissists are kind of just like that
Real reason: It’s much harder to track those using library accounts.
Tbh it’s probably more straightforward than that. Kill a $2B government program to so private interests can collect $4B on the same (or worse) previously subsidized services.
They’re still trying to destroy public education.
It’s simple really: education at any level allows people to realize what is happening. Communication allows people to educate others.
They want isolated, dumb assholes because they will obey them. They got themselves into power starting with GamerGate, so they know it works; and it’s just been working better and better since.
Even more money lost for rural schools. Getting high speed, high capacity internet connections to much of rural America is extremely cost prohibitive. E-Rate was the only way the rural district where I was network admin could possibly afford it.
The schools need internet connectivity whether there is a lot of screen time for the kids or not. What is this shithead even trying to say?
We NEED to Think of the Children by
ARRESTING Pedophiles!FUNDING School Lunch!FUNDING Youth Healthcare!ELIMINATING access to the Internet!-LITERALLY Republicans!
LOL LOL screen time in libraries is bad dontchakno
The isolation begins.
low key hoping this happens because it will turn the nation against the administration and stop the spread of AI and shitty online “educational services” temporarily.
