Lucky. In the 90s-early 2000s for me, we had a computer typing class in middle school... and in highschool... a computer typing class, and an Office class you had to be a senior to take and I had too many more important classes (I was already highly proficient in it and programming VBA for years). So for me they were just games classes. Type out the days work in 5-10min then just play games. No internet, which ironically we had in every other class and the library... in 7th grade History of all places we learned HTML to make a website for a project.
I would have loved any kind of serious computer class.

They could pack up and leave but they won't. All of the big social media CEOs are more addicted to gobbling authoritarian cock than teens are to social media. They'll comply.

Yes, clearly there's been no massive expansion of the surveillance state and loss of privacy since 1994. The slope is slippery enough you fell and hit your head.

Really doubt it's going to keep most off. Every class has at least one kid who will know how to beat the block, and that kid will show everyone else. Like probably a lot of /.ers I was that kid once... Nearly everyone certainly wanted a copy of the tools I wrote to bypass the school site blocker, and that was just with the school library computers. Nobody else in class could *make* the tools, but it made me feel cool as an unpopular nerd so I made sure to simplify it enough for everyone.
Also there's free VPNs. Teens wanting to get to a forbidden fruit don't care about the privacy and ads from them. And I'm sure other ways will be found. Whoever thinks this will keep any significant percentage off has clearly forgotten what it's like to be that age.

I asked it one of my favorites... how to do something very unusual in a specific programming language. A traditional Google search easily surfaces on the 1st page the 1 major forum thread demonstrating how it is indeed possible with a full sample and lengthy explanation, 10y old now, my 2 public GitHub projects expanding on the subject, 1 and 2y old, and articles mentioning them.
Gemini failed like all others, falsely claiming it's impossible. I'd say it failed worse than any AI yet, as it offered an mostly wrong method of using the requested language as a front end as an alternative, where others manage that at least. It then became even more nonsensical than others attempting to press forward.

Those dummies could be satisfied with a minor reskin. Completely trashing it and making it far less useful and user friendly is a deeper rot.

Even if they were, talking to strangers hasn't been proven beyond doubt to dramatically reduce the risk of something much more harmful, dipshit.

In what way? To laugh at those stupid nerds who don't use their OS right and strategize how to enshittify them more?

Given the quality between very similar languages I seriously doubt the utility of current LLMs between ones as different as C and C#. Especially for use by someone who only knows one so can't fix the fuckups.

Absolutely deluded to believe Paxton and other Republicans give a shit about protecting kids.

The Trump administration clearly considers anything less than discrimination in favor of conservative white people to be "DEI". Have you looked at some of the grants they've canceled for "DEI"? It also includes things entirely unrelated to anything conceivably covered by the definition and anodyne statements that everyone is welcome.

LOL I love how you have specific examples of accomplishments for everywhere except India.

My Surface tablet has taken to booting into the menu... with enough tapping an on screen keyboard pops up... but it's *never* worked. If you didn't buy a keyboard with your tablet you'd be shit out of luck because that's the only way you're ever getting Windows to progress past that. No timeout to default.

My favorite is when AI tells me thing x is impossible in language y when code to do x has been on a major site for years if not over a decade. When you try to push through it generates actual gibberish, like not a single line remotely related to the task.

No cap? That would be very interesting... you have evidence there's infinite planets with infinite people ?