The difference is that we’ve allowed a private, for profit company to do the surveillance, and they are not beholden to all of the laws that we put in place to keep the Government in check. Capitalism’s latest innovation is outsourcing fascism. The privatization of all of this oppression is accelerating.

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.” -FDR

I just feel like posting this completely unrelated story on every automated traffic camera thread, I can’t understand why I feel this compulsion.

https://cybernews.com/editorial/israel-hacked-iran-traffic-cameras-us-war/

IANAL, but doesn’t settlement mean they don’t admit fault, they have no judgement to actually force changes, and the same case can’t be brought again, aka, they get to keep harming kids, just have to cough up some tiny slice of profit and offer some lip service to doing better? Or, to rephrase, as long as the government gets a cut, they can keep abusing?

Hilariously, you are right. It certainly wasn’t his intention to do so, but it is happening. Strangely aligned with China spending like crazy to pivot to a green energy super-supplier. End of an era, although no one will admit it yet.

At five, a child has few tools (or even words) to deal with and describe their strong emotions of frustration, disappointment, etc. Dropping an ice cream cone isn’t that big a deal to a 25 year old adult. But it literally may be THE WORST thing that has ever happened to the child. They are also learning what boundaries are for the first time. In the moment of “I hate you”, just don’t take that first gut reaction; pause, think about the moment for them, and then try to find a way to emphasize with them, and maybe even getting them to catch their breath and empathize with you. Teach them what the emotions are called, ask them to try to explain why they are upset, or state why you think they are upset and ask them to confirm. Use and provide your wisdom and context from your years of experience. Don’t flee from your boundaries, but enforce them softly with redirection and reframing rather than hard consequences that the child can’t make the connection with. One phrase I used a lot was “We can’t control everything, sometimes we can’t even control our feelings. But you can try to control your breathing (long, deep breaths have a physiological calming effect). And when you control your breathing, you can get control back of your body and mind.”

To me it seems like all of the corporations and western governments are in a race to the edge of a cliff. All of them see the cliff and all of them know the race is going to end in disaster. But they also refuse to slow down because then they will lose the race.