On Mon, 2026-03-09 at 11:43 +0100, Óscar García Amor wrote: > For example, the proposals made so far for age control > give me real chills. Where does privacy end and control begin?
As I said, it's 100% political and therefore has 0% to do with Arch Linux. I completely understand why there are such proposed solutions for FLOSS software, such as those from the links provided by Jelle van der Waa. I don't want to be misunderstood as criticizing this. It saves trouble. Period. But if you want to think beyond that, then it gets political: If it would help, then the ethical answer would be that violating data protection is justifiable in the interests of the child's welfare. The problem is that the task is viewed from the wrong perspective and is therefore approached in an academic and completely wrong way. Prohibitions and instruction in proper behavior are academic fantasies that are far removed from the reality of life. The only way to accomplish this task is to make the lives of children in affluent societies so interesting from the children's perspective that they find the negative aspects associated with computers far too boring and uncool to waste even a moment of their lives on them. The fact is that children are already familiar with trash that is not only restricted to people aged 16 or 18 and above, but also costs more money than children have. In other words, parents allow them access to things that have long been forbidden to them anyway. The only thing that would be necessary is for parents not to finance certain things for them. I have had and will probably continue to have dealings with elementary school children and their guardians. It doesn't matter whether parents are doing the right or wrong thing, it can't be prevented. The question is why every elementary school boy is interested in playing Call of Duty regularly (which, by the way, is harmless compared to what else elementary school-aged children consume). Children have boring lives or no prospects. If you change this, you solve many other problems as well.
