When kids want a cell phone so they can text and talk to their friends generally parents say "okay" but it comes with strings attached - strings such a super friends and family program which includes an electronic tether.
In other words, unless you are driving a car, you are to text your parents back ASAP anytime they contact you by text or voice.
Okay so let's talk about this shall we? What is the difference between keeping your kid on a leash or giving them an electronic device where you can track their GPS coordinates or look at their phone bill (in real-time) and know exactly who they've been calling, and spy on them like many governments in the world spy on their own citizens? In doing this you are setting up your kids for an authoritative life where someone else controls their destiny.
Today it will be you as a parent, tomorrow it may be our own government - and who says the technology of electronic tethering won't change? Eventually you will have apps on your phone to track your child, and even send you a warning when they go into an unapproved zone, or an area you deem to be off-limits, perhaps their boyfriend, girlfriend, or a group of friends you do not approve of? If they tell you they're going out with their friends to a certain location and they change that location their phone will contact your phone and tell you of the violation.
But why would this technology stop there? It's as if you would have an electronic bracelet, something similar that we give to prisoners who were under house arrest.
What's the difference? What about freedom and liberty, and how will your children ever know the difference.
After all; "if you believe you are free, you are - if you believe you are not, you are not.
" Indeed, I suppose in the future, we will not be communicating with smart phones through text messaging, but rather through thought swapping, where there is a computer chip in your brain, and the GPS tracking device will be encoded within from wherever that communication is originating.
If that brain which is attached to the head of your child goes into some forbidden zone - you would be notified with a thought to your brain, then you could send a thought your child chastising them for violating your trust.
At that point even your child's thoughts will not be private, but then again nor will yours, at which time some government will come along and tell you it is for your own safety that they know everything you are thinking, and God forbid if you have a forbidden thought.
Are we not setting ourselves up for that potentially eventuality, and unforeseen unintended consequences of these technologies moving forward? Please consider all this and think on it.
In other words, unless you are driving a car, you are to text your parents back ASAP anytime they contact you by text or voice.
Okay so let's talk about this shall we? What is the difference between keeping your kid on a leash or giving them an electronic device where you can track their GPS coordinates or look at their phone bill (in real-time) and know exactly who they've been calling, and spy on them like many governments in the world spy on their own citizens? In doing this you are setting up your kids for an authoritative life where someone else controls their destiny.
Today it will be you as a parent, tomorrow it may be our own government - and who says the technology of electronic tethering won't change? Eventually you will have apps on your phone to track your child, and even send you a warning when they go into an unapproved zone, or an area you deem to be off-limits, perhaps their boyfriend, girlfriend, or a group of friends you do not approve of? If they tell you they're going out with their friends to a certain location and they change that location their phone will contact your phone and tell you of the violation.
But why would this technology stop there? It's as if you would have an electronic bracelet, something similar that we give to prisoners who were under house arrest.
What's the difference? What about freedom and liberty, and how will your children ever know the difference.
After all; "if you believe you are free, you are - if you believe you are not, you are not.
" Indeed, I suppose in the future, we will not be communicating with smart phones through text messaging, but rather through thought swapping, where there is a computer chip in your brain, and the GPS tracking device will be encoded within from wherever that communication is originating.
If that brain which is attached to the head of your child goes into some forbidden zone - you would be notified with a thought to your brain, then you could send a thought your child chastising them for violating your trust.
At that point even your child's thoughts will not be private, but then again nor will yours, at which time some government will come along and tell you it is for your own safety that they know everything you are thinking, and God forbid if you have a forbidden thought.
Are we not setting ourselves up for that potentially eventuality, and unforeseen unintended consequences of these technologies moving forward? Please consider all this and think on it.
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