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See, this shit right here tells you exactly what's going on. They know
this shit is harmful and addictive and they don't care. More than that,
they want your children to become addicted to it, both to make the masses
more pliable and easy to control, and because they're getting rich from it.

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Despite building an increasingly screen-focused world, billionaire tech
leaders are keeping their own children away from the tech they helped
create.

As far back as 2010,-aApple-acofounder Steve Jobs-atold-aa-aNew York Times-areporter his kids had never used an iPad and that, rCLWe limit how much technology our kids use at home.rCY-a

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.-a

Excessive device use among children has grown more common in recent years
as busy parents turn to screens to find some peace. The trend has
accelerated so much that some young children accustomed to extensive screen time are dubbed rCLiPad kids.rCY On average, children in the U.S. ages 8 to 18 spend 7.5 hours per day watching or using screens,-aaccording to-athe
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

YouTube cofounder Steve Chen-asaid-aat a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business last year that he wouldnrCOt want his kids consuming only short-form content, noting that it might be better to limit kids to videos longer than 15 minutes.

rCLShorter-form content equates to shorter attention spans,rCY he said.

At the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival, early Facebook investor and billionaire
Peter Thiel joined Chen among the ranks of tech leaders who are setting
strict limits on screens. Thiel-asaid-ahe lets his two young children use screens for only an hour and a half per week, a revelation that prompted audible gasps from the audience.

Other tech CEOs, including MicrosoftrCOs Bill Gates, SnaprCOs Evan Spiegel, and TeslarCOs Elon Musk, have also spoken about limiting their childrenrCOs access to devices. Gates has said he did not give his children smartphones until
age 14 and banned phones at the dinner table entirely.-aSnap-aCEO Spiegel, in 2018, said he limits his child to the same 1.5 hours per week of screen
time as Thiel....

Scientific research backs up their parenting instincts. A 2025-astudy-aof nearly 100,000 people found that short-form video use was consistently associated with poorer cognition and a decline in many aspects of mental
health across both younger and older social media users....

And yet, far from being a new phenomenon, the idea that social media use is harmful for young people has been around for years. Still, itrCOs the tech leaders who created the attention economy who have been the most attentive
to this fact.-a

To be sure, several social media CEOs have publicly pushed back on claims
that their platforms are harmful. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri-atestified-aearlier this month in the trial against its parent
company, Meta, that overuse of social media does not constitute rCLclinical addiction.rCY MetarCOs lawyers during the trial also outlined a range of safety features Instagram has introduced for younger users, including limits on
the visibility of adult content and muted notifications at night.

Yet as the trials-aagainst social media companies continue-aand country after country moves toward legislating what Silicon Valley billionaires have
quietly practiced for years, the private behavior of the worldrCOs most powerful tech figures stands in contrast to what theyrCOre promoting and building.-a

https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/peter-thiel-bill-gates-steve-jobs-steve-chen-tech-billionaires-publicly-shielding-their-children-from-tech-products-social-media/

<https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/peter-thiel-bill-gates-steve-jobs-steve-chen-tech-billionaires-publicly-shielding-their-children-from-tech-products-social-media/>


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D. Ray <d@ray> wrote:

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rCLExcessive device use among children has grown more common in recent years
as busy parents turn to screens to find some peace.rCY

The evil of this part is really profound. Do you think the tech oligarchs
who ban their kids from using tablets and limit screen time to 1.5 hours
per week are doing the hard work of parenting their young kids
themselves??? Of course not, they have a legion of nannies, babysitters
and private tutors to do it for them.

Meanwhile, the working class (blue collar and white collar) live in an increasingly stratified economy with no rest, no letup, no time to spend
with their children. Salaried workers put in 50, 60, 70 hours per week,
often bringing their work home. Hourly workers, tradesmen, people in
retail put in countless hours of overtime. Nobody gets any paid vacation
to speak of because of the laws of this shithole country, no sick time, no personal timerCoand both parents must work full time or have a half dozen
side gigs just to afford to maintain a middle class standard of living.

So what happens? Parents are all hustle, hustle, hustle all the time and
they don't have the time or focus to be able to spend on their kids, who especially when they are young, need constant engagement and a lot of attention.

So these same ultracapitalists who engineered this subsistence
hamster-wheel hustle economy then provide you with the answer: rCLhere, just stick these highly addictive tablets and video games in the kid's faces!
That way you will get a moment's peace. Sure, it will rot their brains,
that's why I'm not giving that shit to my kids.rCY

The increasing diversity, alienation and rising mental illness all
compounds this problem. In the bad old days of the last robber baron era, parents who slaved long hours in the factory or on farms would simply turn their kids loose to roam free in the countryside or in the
neighborhoodrCowhere they would develop more-or-less natually without
parental supervision. But with the rise of mentally ill perverts, homeless subhumans and every other type of antisocial freak, and the breakdown of
social structures and homogeneous, high-trust communities, parents don't
even feel safe letting their kids walk out the front door.

So again, they put the little screen in front of them just to keep them
safe.

Everything about this stinking hellhole the Jews and tech oligarchs have created sucks, the entire thing needs to be pulled down in fire and blood.
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