I suspect many parent do get that education here, and maybe lots of kids have been spared the program experience because of that. But those parents are probably just Fornits readers -- they know better than to become Fornits posters.
This is probably the best post I've seen on the subject.
Of course parents aren't going to like it. They're not supposed to like it, and every prospective program parent I scare off, I chalk up as a victory. This is a forum about
child torture. And there is no way in hell that any kind of majority of parents are going to read the shit posted here- especially not ZenAgent's, Jesus fuck- and say "well, the posters there are so nasty, they must be wrong, I'm going over to ST and the ed-cons"... no no no. Human beings do not work that way. The more likely reaction will be "Holy shit, this whole business is surrounded in lies and hatred, get me the hell out, I never want to even think about doing this to my kid". Don't pretend it's anything else.
The reason I post with a free hand around here is simple:
nothing that I can possibly type could conceivably be nastier than the main subject of Fornits. Even if I were to publish a 20-page diatribe on how much I want to boil programmies in their own blood (mmm, now I'm hungry), or post some /b/tard's idea of a motivational poster (that would be the Patience one on the HLA board), if I offend you more than just one kid being sleep-deprived at night and restrained for hours during the day, that represents some seriously skewed values on your part.
People, you're on the Internet, and you can turn me off. That puts you two great leaps ahead of all the kids who are prevented from touching so much as a telephone, and can't make the sadist in front of them stop yelling at them about how bad they are.