it's not 1999 anymore. you can't create malicious sites and then cry "I'm just a nerdy teeeeen" afterwards

antonymoose 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Devil’s Advocate: I would expect a dumb teen to not understand the history and blast radius of social media like a former teen that grew up on that trash did.

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adjejmxbdjdn 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Devil’s devil’s advocate.

He had several rounds of warnings before things escalated (not counting the local bully).

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ImPostingOnHN 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The author explained that he had watched (and quoted) The Social Network, in which Zuckerberg gets in academic trouble for doing exactly this.

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Invictus0 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Huh? This is not a "dumb teen" smoking weed in the parking lot, this is a student at IIT Delhi, which has a sub 1% acceptance rate and is one of the most elite schools in the world, that is smart enough to make a social media app.

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		> this is a student at IIT Delhi, which has a sub 1% acceptance rate and is one of the most elite schools in the world Elite schools are full of dumb people. Being good at math doesn't automatically give you emotional intelligence. > that is smart enough to make a social media app What, like it's hard? I could've sworn making a Twitter clone was in plenty of "Programming for Dummies" books during the 2010s - and they didn't even have access to LLMs!

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bigstrat2003 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can in fact do that. Kids do stupid things all the time. We need to teach them, not ostracize them.

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