i find it fascinating how limiting network access for kids does not result in them abiding by your rules but rather leads them to find ways around it

my parents always restricted my internet on a MAC address whitelist mechanism so i learned how to use wireshark and ip tools

my high school had a firewall set up to prevent us from accessing game websites and tools that could potentially help us cheat, so i learned how to bypass their sophos and fortinet firewalls by setting up an nginx conf for google.com on my server, doing host header spoofing and tunelling my traffic over wireguard which was also tunneled over chisel, a http tunnel

maybe i would've followed their rules if they had a reasonable explanation as to why it was for my own good instead of screaming at me and forcing their bullshit views onto me

@alina in my case it took me a lot.

But my father just did not give me admin password and made me wait outside until he wrote it when I had to do stuff.

Was limited there and by the time I learned how to install an OS and prepare the pendrive in another computer to reinstall it, I was "old enough" so he had given me the password.

I got internet connection in 2015. Before that I could only rely on library which was limited to 1-hour of computer use per day unless it was empty.