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Let Goofy Track Your Children
Rio writes "The Walt Disney Company unveiled a new wireless phone service that allows parents to track their children on a map using Global Positioning System technology, according to Local 6 News. The new "family friendly" service, called Disney Mobile, allows parents to decide who their children can call and when, the report said. The phone service will launch in June and has not been priced yet."
What this ammounts to is a huge invasion of privacy. Won't someone please think of the children!? :)
My other car is first.
The real question is can the phones be turned into shock collars that zap the little bastards when they go out of bounds?
It's not in fashion anymore to teach and raise your kids. Kids are to be controlled with as little hassle as possible. And "fortunately", today's technology makes that possible.
I didn't have a cell when I was a kid. My parents couldn't track me. They also couldn't keep me from reading porn (despite the fact that there was no internet back then). They didn't manage to keep me away from booze, they couldn't keep me from reaching for the big bad hot stove, they didn't manage to keep me away from cigarettes.
So I went places I shouldn't, got bruised and learned not to go there. I drank too much when I was about 13 and got a splitting headache the next day, and I learned not to drink. I reached for the stove, got burned and learned not to reach there. And I smoked a pack of cigs, puked my soul out and learned that I'm better off without.
In other words, kids today are deliberately kept stupid, because they're forbidden to learn the really essential things in life.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.