TimothyOilypants

"The only thing that can stop a bad dog with a gun is a good dog with a gun."

And ANYTHING to do with natural resource harvesting and processing.

It still seems like letting people off the hook for media literacy is a knee jerk reaction. Since the dawn of Google, the VAST majority of people who use it have just treated the first result as gospel. I don't know if scraping that same content and putting it in the same place with the word "Summary" above it is materially that different.

The core problem here is still individuals not taking accountability for their own education. I would actually argue that holding Google to the standard of somehow being "arbiters of truth" is even more dangerous. No one should trust any information presented to them by an entity that has vested financial interests in influencing consumer behavior.

The Dream and Magic were the beginning of an era!

It's just about increasing the friction. No door lock will stop a motivated thief, but it will discourage 75% of people from trying. The laziest/stupidest kids (read: the most at risk for grooming and indoctrination) will be the ones least likely to overcome this friction, so it's still a good harm reduction strategy.

To be fair, kids clever and motivated enough to get around this type of gating generally aren't the ones at the greatest risk. I think this is more about creating a reasonable barrier to protect our most vulnerable.