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Comment by Despegar | Hacker News Reader

>The solution should be to education society, not lock down information flow to protect society.

An extremely 90s tech utopian world view that time has proven to be misguided. And if you're not adjusting your thinking after the multi decade experiment where we tried it this way, then it's just an ideology and you're not really the educated and rational ubermensch you believe to be.

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I'm hesitant to adjust my thinking because the alternatives are far from acceptable. I have an inherent distrust of authority to give them the power to regulate, and I would hope that those paying attention to the unequal application of law would have similar views. Do you really want the same government that gave Epstein his weekends only jail sentence for his convicted (convicted, not alleged like in many cases) crimes to also be in control of what information is allowed? I'd settle for conspiracy theorist any day of the week.

How can you trust that same government to educate the citizenry, especially considering private schools are increasingly out of reach for most?

For concerned parents, be involved in your child's education and not depend upon the school to do the job. Overall schools focus too much on standardize testing, so if you fully leave the job to the schools you end up with good test takers who aren't going to do particularly well in many colleges.

When it comes to matters of ethics and morals, you definitely should not leave that to the school and I even suggest some subversion of the often authoritarian message I find schools teaching (personal experience with a pretty below average school district, others may have vastly different experiences).

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