"SMTP has outlived its usefulness" (was: Forwarding services)

Oh, the solution for my kids is to educate them. To teach them. To give them the tools to navigate society and the technologies around them, as they inevitably must - cause (much sooner than I'd like) they're going to stop listening to me, they'll be off doing their own thing, and I won't be able to stop them. Indeed, I want to feel I know they're well equipped to handle it.

I know there are parents who can't be arsed to do that. Or who have been frightened into thinking they can't do that. I don't think that's a reason for authoritarian measures though.

The kids are going to work around these things anyway. If we lock down the big-tech social media that are easily controlled by government, they'll eventually find other apps/sites/tools that are out of the governments control (other jurisdictions, or just decentralised). Just like we wrote and read shit on the Internet ourselves, even when it was hard to find.