Let's All Teach Children It's Okay To Spy On Their Parents!

[FlippyD]

The fact that this exists, specifically on ToysRUs.com, is HILARIOUS!!

But uhh, whatever happened to just picking up the receiver of another phone in the house on the same line? ~_~;;

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

Because some phones now have a button that lights up when the line is in use by more than one phone (like mine).

 

[FlippyD]

Because some phones now have a button that lights up when the line is in use by more than one phone (like mine).

Damn, well I guess there's still sifting through your parents download history? Or just mod the phone to remove the light.

 

[Glitchfinder]

I personally think that the wholke problem is that some people overreact, and others don't react at all. This toy, like the myriad of working "spy" toys, is a bad idea, period. Yes, I have wanted to eavesdrop on conversations. No, I don't do it. I respect people's privacy, because I realize that it is extremely easy to lost something that fundamental. My parents taught me that it is better to let someone make their own mistakes than to force them to "own up" Take the idea of a white lie as an example. Some say any lie is bad, period. Others, like me, say that if a lie can help, then is can actually be good. Really, the problem here is that some people are calling this the first wave of big brother. Obviously, you haven't watched or read anything on recent events since 1900. Watergate, phone tapping, paparazzi, cell phone cameras, and camera surveilance everywhere, just to name a few examples. (My middle school, in one of the safest areas in southern California, had a security camera to watch the backpacks while kids were in P.E., because there was too much theft) For the people who don't react, they have no idea where they are leading the country. Big Brother is just as bad, or worse, than Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. (Did you know that more people died of starvation in Russia during the war than the Nazis killed in their camps?)

 

[FlippyD]

Just a simple question, how is this anything like "Big Brother" if it's a civilian product? And what does wire tapping your parents phone have to do with keeping secrets or lying? Anyone using this product would be using it with voyeuristic intentions. If you wanna get all fancy with it you'd be better off going to Radio Shack or another electronics store. If you're freaked out about it don't buy it for your kid. If you're afraid of the kid being able to bug the phone anyway that's one thing, but I see no reason why it would be "Orwellian" in origin, that's just silly paranoia.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

Because people fear big brother, and OH MY GOD SOMEONE IS SPYING ON ME THE GOVERNMENT WILL KNOW AFTER THEY READ HIS MIND AND HIS BLOG DDDDDDDDDD:
BECAUSE YOU KNOW IF NEIGHBOR BOB KNOWS WHO I AM CURRENTLY TALKING TO IN A VERBOSE AND YET STRANGELY COMFORTABLE MANNER WHILE IN THE PRIVACY OF MY OWN HOME WITH THE DOORS LOCKED WHILE STANDING UPSIDE DOWN IN THE CLOSET YOU KNOW THE GOVERNMENT CAN AND IS BECAUSE I AM OH EVER SO IMPORTANT THAT THEY ARE VERY WILLING TO SPEND THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPYING ON ME THE GUY SO IMPORTANT EVEN THE CREDIT CARD COMPANIES MISSPELLS MY NAME

 

[FlippyD]

Sometimes I wonder if Homeland Security is on the other line when I'm on the phone.

Then I start moaning and pretending I'm a sex line operator.

You'd be surprised how many friends you can make that way.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

I would love to find out I'm being spied on.  I would totally fuck with them.

My little cousin thinks it's cute to walk around and try to eavesdrop, he's 8 and thinks he's some kind of secret agent ninja.  I hear him, or I see him, or what not.  The steps or the floor creak slightly as we walks over trying to listen, or the click the phone makes or when the light comes on.  It's adorable.  I pretend like I'm planning on killing him, or stealing one of his precious trading cards.
He's so cute when he starts hoarding all his belongings on the couch and refuses to leave their side whenever I'm in the room.  I should be the one paranoid by some of these stupid thoughts I s'pose, since you know - my privacies, oh my privacies D: