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209 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 13 Dec 25 12:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

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oliwarner ◴[13 Dec 25 16:18 UTC] No.46255636[source]▶

This isn't hypocrisy, it's parenting.

Do you think the Pfizer CEO lets their kids have unlimited Viagra? Or the Anheuser-Busch CEO's kids have unlimited Bud Light? I don't think this is the gotcha it's painted as.

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prakashk ◴[13 Dec 25 16:29 UTC] No.46255736[source]▶

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The hypocrisy is not because they are limiting access to their kids.

It is because they are limiting access to their kids, while actively creating and executing algorithms to increase user engagement even to the point of making people addictive and dependent on their platforms.

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1. naian ◴[13 Dec 25 19:37 UTC] No.46257239[source]▶

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But that would affect their children exactly the same. It doesn't, because they do some parenting. (Or subcontract it, which is the same thing.)

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