Alice is a pretty good 3D programming environment aimed at kids, with little programming blocks to snap together.
You might want to try going back into the archives and pulling out something like MS-DOS and QBasic, or Logo. You can find a good tutorial in book form, and you can get a system that was designed to be programmed offline, with things like local help in the editor instead of behind a Google search, so it should be 100% safe to leave the kid alone with the machine.
No, I think this is just a consequence of having heard about all the times we treated people like they weren't actually people. If we want to avoid keeping doing that, we might sometimes have to treat things that might not be people or aren't actually people as if they were people, just to be sure we've covered everybody.
That suggests they're less likely to try to frantically monitize in a way that risks killing their brand's reputation. Maybe they'll stay nice indefinitely.
And while the bots don't have our feelings, the characters they are made to portray are able to follow feeling physics in the same way that we can. Insult it, now it says it's mad. Compliment it, it will claim to feel gratitude. And the claimed feelings influence what is said next, as if they were being felt.
Are those "real" feelings? Or just "fake" feelings we've yet to explain away? If you have no way of telling the difference, isn't it better to be kind to the machine than to be mean to the alien from vector space?
But everybody is also moving into their castle. Many for free.
They are not allowed to let people do that unless they have an argument that, somehow, this makes money for the owners of Cloudflare. Maybe that's in the form of good publicity. Maybe they're hoping to set up some tollbooths at the castle gate, once enough people are inside and the other options have withered for lack of customers.
If they are storing a this data anyway to make the thing work (so you can go and un-upvote the thing you upvoted five years ago), how is "privacy" reduced if they also have the as system decide to show you an ad because people who upvoted that thing tend to click on the ad?
No new people or businesses are being given any new information bout anyone. Is it because what used to be a passive database is now starting to think, and your privacy is infringed because the system itself is now looking at you when you didn't expect it to?
We shouldn't judge anyone with prejudice; that's in the word. We must treat all people as humans; not doing that is a Nazi idea. We should treat signing up with the Nazis as evidence, and act accordingly to prevent Nazis from running around doing and saying Nazi things.
Getting stuff onto F-Droid is hard; you have to design for their build system.
Google Play has a thing where if you design for their build system, they will do all the builds and hold the signing keys. So then you don't have to worry about keeping a signing key safe from various malicious government agencies.
Google was Phone all along