12 September 2014

Childrens' Tech Screentime Curtailed By Steve Jobs And Many "High-Tech" Executive Parents Who Allow Very Limited Or None At All But For Homework With No Smartphones Until Age 14 Nor Data Plans Until Age 16 And In Any Case "Never" In The Bedroom

       Friday, 12 September 2014, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The Ninth Amendment Editorial Board suggests that parents of minor children may be well advised to follow the lead of some of those who should know best including former Apple Computer chief Steve Jobs and many other current top executives of major internet players and their spouses about both educational pitfalls and more immediate real-world dangers that high-tech devices and internet "services" may bring often by stealth into their homes.
       Perhaps surprisingly most of those interviewed in the New York Times article linked below rather than having homes stuffed with iPads and the like instead have recounted rigorous household rules greatly limiting their youths' exposure to "reading" materials other than good old-fashioned paper-bound books, pens and paper particularly when it comes to anything other than legitimately creative endeavors and the necessity for computers in completing homework accompanied by family dinner conversations about current school learning and other areas of knowledge at tables with nary a tech device including screen to be found.
       Most interestingly many parents in top positions at some of the largest and biggest players in tech internet and other such companies completely ban devices and their use that other parents presumably less knowledgeable about the risks they entail for their children freely make available or even encourage as if it were a matter of right of passage to full-blown childhood. Specifically mentioned is the fact that many of these "high-tech" parents will not even allow the use of messaging devices and tech tools which keep a permanent record of personal communications which one day may come back to haunt their children from a time before they knew better than to make them.
        So sorry to Facebook's Zuckerboy, Myspace. Google+, Twitter (whose own top executives vigorously enforce such restrictive rules with their own children), Yahoo, LinkedIn and the hundreds of other such deceptively designated "social media" and e-mail, instant messenger, cellular call and text service privacy invaders and all manner of other commercial exploiters of personal information and communications for their own monetary gain.
       Regardless of whether or not they expressly "knowingly" cooperate their consistently repeated experience would alert anyone but a complete brain-dead idiot that willingly or not they are acting either constructively voluntarily in league with or as total imbecilic tools of their de facto U.S. "national security" partners who repeatedly and incessantly in wholesale criminal violation of privacy laws and other U.S. Constitutional rights and their penumbras in furtherance of their consistently misguided largely completely ineffective in the absence of actual painstaking police work criminal schemes which they bottom line justify by strong-arming what any self-respecting attorney knows or should know are completely convoluted self-serving BS made-to-order contrived bogus "legal" opinions ultimately based on nothing but the ridiculously farcical foundation that the criminal transgressions they endorse in clear violation of the U.S. Constitutional rights they are sworn to uphold can ever be more "compelling" under the U.S. Constitution than the rule of law itself.
       Many high-tech executives if they allow their children any such constantly illegally monitored activities at all allowed only specifically named services such as "Snapchat" which allegedly immediately dispose permanently of any such personal messages as soon as they are sent although based on the Ninth Amendment's experience with the U.S. Government's Executive Branch "national security underworld" we would have to find in this day and age any such assurance to be most highly suspect at best. Something that need be kept private and even for a moment is absorbed into a high-tech device even unconnected to a phone line, the internet or anything else to our understanding must immediately by sledgehammered to bits the size of pebbles burned in a barrel of jet fuel thrown with no outside observation whatsoever into the back of a dumpster on a dark Bedford-Stuyvesant sidestreet immediately emptied into the trash compactor in the back of an armored car converted into a dump truck taken directly to a mob-owned car-crusher after being liberally doused in liquid hazardous radioactive medical waste before being buried under hundreds of tons of similar debris piled on a half-mile long barge bound directly to China where it is permanently disposed of under a concrete highway along with the remains of the Twin Towers in an active volcanic crater.
       For similar reasons if one did not heed the example of these high-tech executives' universal warning to keep all such "high-tech" devices out of one's children's bedrooms we certainly would suggest keeping any computer camera or microphone even supposedly not in use well-covered with duct tape or better yet first with petroleum jelly or otherwise assume whether it is the Russian mafia, the NSA or any of a thousand others working solo or for another "outfit" that some creepy criminal geek working for whichever may well be watching and listening to one's under-age daughter talking about her parents, changing her clothes, sitting on the toilet, or worse....

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

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