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Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

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Submitted ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨remington@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://fortune.com/article/peter-thiel-tech-billionaires-limit-kids-screen-time-social-media-smartphones-short-form-video-risks/

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re also publicly admitting to wanting to be despots.

    Of course the opiate for the masses is not for theirs. They know at this point the Internet is technically an infohazard. They made it that way on purpose.

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  • fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course it’s fine to point out hypocrisy, but more importantly, these billionaires (all billionaires) are really fucked up people. Their brains are not OK. They have horrible values. They are happy that people starve and die every day, because that makes them richer. Don’t think that copying them will get you anywhere good.

    (Of course you still might want to shield your kid from shitty products. But don’t do it because Thiel does.)

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    they also shield them from the public, because they know the children will be doxxed. they dont want the same social media, BRAINROT, likely AI to ROT thier childrens brains too. except musk, who uses his children as a human shield.

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  • newton@feddit.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just a scammer nothing else

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  • Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good, it will make them want it all the more. I remember when the iPhone first came out and it was the hot ticky item for all the young folk to have. I remember Bill Gates banning his children from using iPhones. There were pictures in the news about a month later with the kids carrying iPhones.

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  • danielfm123@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Quote “”“Since then, the trend of Silicon Valley billionaires keeping their families away from technology has become even more pronounced, thanks in part to the rise of social media and short-form video. “””"

    My son has shorts blocked, otherwise he goes crazy, I installed brave or YouTube morphed just to block shorts.

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