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YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same

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209 points pseudolus | 3 comments | 13 Dec 25 12:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source
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pj_mukh ◴[13 Dec 25 12:54 UTC] No.46254203[source]▶
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Pooge ◴[13 Dec 25 13:30 UTC] No.46254386[source]▶
Their point is that despite being the designers of such systems, they prevent their own children from using them. Akin to a drug dealer not consuming what he sells.
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hamburglar ◴[13 Dec 25 13:39 UTC] No.46254432[source]▶
Breaking: Willy Wonka execs don’t let their kids eat unlimited amount of candy.

See how uninteresting and obvious that is?

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1. tgv ◴[13 Dec 25 15:39 UTC] No.46255318[source]▶
That misses the point by a mile and a half: nobody let's their children eat unlimited amounts of chocolate. They do, however, let their children access Tiltok, Youtube, etc.
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2. iteria ◴[13 Dec 25 16:26 UTC] No.46255716[source]▶
Except that's not true. Plenty of parents let their kids have unlimited access to junk food and candy. Neighbor kids come over and they don't know what to do because I only have water, fruit, and pretzels. I have been to so many parent's houses who have whole pantries of just sugary snacks.
3. Libidinalecon ◴[13 Dec 25 18:19 UTC] No.46256636[source]▶
No this misses the point.

I wanted to eat unlimited junk food when I was a kid but my parents wouldn't let me.

You can change it even to unlimited protein shakes. It is the same point. It is almost like kids are kind of stupid if you let them do whatever they want.