she found the search engine report. It contained every search made through the family’s internet service in the past three months. Searches about takeout food (“menu for Thai Garden”), the weather (“is it going to rain today”), education (“best MIT dorms”), leisure (“what’s on TV tonight”), health (“why can’t I sleep”), arts and crafts (“how to make slime”), and the other infinite queries of an ordinary American family.
And back in the day they had massive sets of encyclopedias being sold to families under the guise of it being, the best way, the only way that children would get a good education. I have to wonder what’s worse, a failed 2nd hand car salesman ripping you off for a few thousand dollars, or your kid doing an innocent search for school homework and ending up seeing something that’ll be seared into their poor brains forevermore … not much of a choice is it
