Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren
Cruz: Hotspot lending could “censor kids’ exposure to conservative viewpoints.”…
Why do these fuckers spend so much time and effort trying to make things worse? Like there's scapegoating immigrants because it'll rile up your voter base and get you re-elected and then there's shit like taking away lunch from kids. Like who does that even benefit?
I'm genuinely asking if they just get giddy with excitement at the thought of making things worse for other people.
Polite society stopped allowing for said types to receive a hearty fist to the face, which seems to have historically been the prescribed course of action
Misery loves company, and these are very miserable, angry, hateful people. If they can't be happy, no one can.
Because an angry and stupid population votes GOP.
Hotspot lending could “censor kids’
definition of censorship is not your access to alternatives to the "state propaganda curriculum". Access to alternatives is in fact the opposite of censorship.
This guy watches the craziest porn
Since when? Pornhub's homepage is full of similar videos.
Remember when he tweeted out a pornhub video
Wouldn't blocking them completely restrict them from "exposure to conservative viewpoints."?
That's what tv is for
When he gets to the point where he needs life support, I hope some child who needed that wi-fi hotspot and couldn't get it, because that loser got his way, is able to block his life support. Nothing of value would be lost.
"The government shouldn't be complicit in harming students or impeding parents' ability to decide what their kids see by subsidizing unsupervised access to inappropriate content,"
Like Fox News or OAN.
I swear there don't seem to be any decent thing this guy do. I'm amaze why his still elected.
It's simple really. People vote on culture war issues, and respect posture more than reason, we are a weak species that is easily manipulated, moreso when you gut education.
TIL there are hotspots in Cancun.
Or the sun, a more appropriate vacation place to send Cruz.
Best tan ever! for a few seconds.
He does know a guy with rockets tho.
His name is Rafael...
And he's actually a Canadian LARPing as an American citizen.
I do not like that man Ted Cruz...
I've seen much pointless dumb shit these last days, but this one still manages to shine.
Inb4 they make it legal for schools to send the pegasus spyware to everyone in a one-mile radius of schools.
This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!! For the children!!! \s
Not only do I completely agree with this, I am blown away that schools aren't actually using paper textbooks anymore. I only recently woke up to this lazy new way of teaching. I don't want my children even using devices at all for any purpose, let alone being required to use them for schoolwork. What the fuck kind of society are we creating?
They should be using tablets. Wax tablets. It was good enough for my great-to-the-nth-grandfather, so it's good enough for kids today.
let alone being required to use them for schoolwork.
I was born in 1991. In elementary school I had assignments that required a computer. This is not new.
Me too, they didn't require constant connectivity. I went to the library or computer lab. Lots of kids in my class didn't have a home computer. And even though my family did, it didn't give me an advantage on those assignments. We all had to manage doing them at school on a school computer. Thank God they didn't have Facebook.
Please. Paper is modern nonsense and I won't have our society polluted by it. Papyrus or stone tablets only.
And that's how we end up with young adults entering the work force that can't
The world is different than it was 30 years ago, if we don't prepare them for the internet age, then they will fail.
I do agree, physical books and learning off-screen is very important. Letting kids use the open web all day is not helpful, but bring them the computer lab to teach them the productive uses of a computer.
Except the school prepares the children with none of that in its current state. Those chromebooks are incredibly locked to the point of being practically useless beyond searching stuff on google. We have still have textbooks at my school but most people prefer the pdf version. Most of the kids at my school are incredibly tech illiterate to the point of not knowing how the filesystem works. Most of them have used mobile devices as their primary computers and use laptops just as a glorified browser.
I don't think any of this is actually a problem--meaning I don't agree that it is true, not that it wouldn't be a problem if it were true--except Microsoft's criminal UI changes and perpetual rebranding of the same old garbage.
He is literally, outloud, complaining that the reason is because maybe kids who are unsupervised and have access to things are somehow going to have less access(??) to conservative viewpoints. The society he’s so afraid of creating is one where he cannot control children’s access to filtered, conservative-biased media, and since pretty much every conservative talking point is a lie, exaggeration, or manipulated perspective they desperately need to be in control of the flow of information. They’re literally banning paper books, bro.
Also this is about hotspot use being expanded outside of schools(“off-premises”), but if that comment is your take then maybe reading comprehension isn’t your thing. Guess those paper textbooks didn’t really do anything to help you, either.
(Literally in the first line it explains that the intention is to help kids without reliable internet get their homework done. He just hates poor people, big surprise.)
As has been well documented time and again, Texas textbooks are not neutral sources of information (podcast for anyone interested). Taking real books out of the library, controlling the content of textbooks, getting rid of Internet access specifically because it could introduce thought to children... Home of the free, my friends. Free speech absolutism.
Technology is going to be a part of every kids future (if they have one...) and should be taught with the other things they need to learn to be functional and successful.
There are other ways to limit social media access, and wccessnto other unproductive media. Use school sanctioned devices for work. Hire proper IT folk to lock down the equipment. But that would require funding for schools to be adequate.
This is a complex issue. You are over simplifying it.
Not sure if sarcastic, but if serious, this is a completely idiotic take. I have three kids of school age and I really can't see a reason for this.
Yeah! And what about these libraries? Lids are just able to go and find stuff on shelves and learn things that aren't filtered through my personal opinions?
What kind of society are we creating?
Agreed. We can't run the risk that children might think on their own or develop an opinion on things.
They're here to take care of me when I'm old, and until I'm dead they're going to do exactly what I say, when I say, and how I say.
We don't need this kind of woke "thinking for yourself" nonsense.
(Very /s for the person out there that had a bad case of the woosh.)
I'm all for libraries. Cruz rationale is retarded, all I'm saying is that the government shouldn't be providing wifi hotspots to kids.
then GTFO the Internet and go parent your kids you dingbat extremist
Back in my day, we just mix drinking water and waste water, we ain't got no medicine, you get infected you die. Pffff kids these days and their "technology"...
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Ok boomer
How do you expect them do assignments like papers, by typewriter? No, I suppose that's a device too, so hand-written only. Truly, this will equip them to be functioning adults!
How do you expect them do assignments like papers, by typewriter? No, I suppose that’s a device too, so hand-written only. Truly, this will equip them to be functioning adults!
Recommendations state that children and adolescents should have screen time limited to 2 hours a day or less. If the average school day is 5-6 hours with an average of 2 hours of homework a night, and everything is done on screens, we are actively violating scientific health guidelines and damaging the students brains.
Reading books is also better for the brain than reading the same information from a screen as there is less stimuli being processed while reading the book allowing the brain to have more focus on the processing of information.
Writing by hand is a proven way to retain and better understand information. Learning and practicing writing in both block and cursive improves these outcomes further. Typing, even on a typewriter, does not have the same benefits.
So yes, making students write assignments out by hand using physical books for research will equip them to be more functional as adults.
While I enjoyed having paper textbooks in school (until I got to college and they were $300+ each), when was the last time you seriously used a paper textbook to learn something new? In this day and age we have Google/Bing/Kagi and you’re going to search for the thing you need to know, pull up Wikipedia, read a few blog posts or the documentation from the project itself, and then apply what you learned.
We’re teaching children how better to survive in today’s world, not teaching them how to survive in our grandfathers world.
Now, my kid has read a few physical paperbacks for her high school English class, and reads plenty of physical books when she gets them from the library or buys them, but classwork is online, instruction is in person, and she seems to be doing just fine not carrying around 20lbs of paper every day. If anything I’d say her note taking has improved more than mine did when I assumed I could simply just open the book back up. This is the world we live in and she’s being taught how to survive in it.
I am actually reading a paper book right now to learn about configuring advanced features of ZFS. Hard to believe but it's much easier to understand than the fragments of information on Stack Exchange. The man pages are nice to reference but they don't really teach the concepts or give good examples. And Perplexity gave me bad information. Even for very technical things, which you might think would be the first to be displaced, there's still a place for paper books. Yeah I could figure it out eventually but reading this book has probably been faster, more thorough, and more approachable.
I agree to a certain extent; at least elementary school should and remain device free.
Seeing how many people believe you are wrong, I am going to post the reasons why you are right so hopefully the people in disagreement understand:
Recommendations state that children and adolescents should have screen time limited to 2 hours a day or less, with emphasis on "less". If the average school day is 5-6 hours with an average of 2 hours of homework a night, and everything is done on screens, we are actively violating scientific health guidelines and damaging the students brains.
Reading books is better for the brain than reading the same information from a screen as there is less stimuli being processed while reading the book allowing the brain to have more focus on the processing of information.
Writing by hand is a proven way to retain and better understand information. Learning and practicing writing in both block and cursive improves these outcomes further. Typing, even on a typewriter, does not have the same benefits.
The fact that so many people do not understand these three very important things demonstrates a lot of ignorance and bias for technology. How many studies are needed before the "Regulations should be based in scientific study" crowd stop pushing against the recommendations of the scientific community?
