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Just keep them off reddit 50/50. Kids don't know their limits to being exposed to images of violence. It's no immediately obvious that consuming those kind of i
by totetsu 6y ago
Just keep them off reddit 50/50. Kids don't know their limits to being exposed to images of violence. It's no immediately obvious that consuming those kind of images can have long term effects. Kids don't know how to contextualize sexualised representations. It' not immediately obvious that those images are produced to show things in a certain way to fit into a certain market, and don't represent life as it really is. I agree that it's impossible to try and just shield them from everything, it's better to give them the tools to process it themselves. But with the internet being weaponized by anti-social zealots trying to bring on ww3, who purposefully publish in channels used by young people... I wonder what is the value of letting young people lose in all of it..
- sneak 6y agoI was exposed to the unfiltered internet starting at around puberty, and, despite being a huge programmer nerd, I turned out mostly okay. I don’t think ten year olds gibbing opponents with rocket launchers in Quake is quite as harmful as you seem to think.
- DangitBobby 6y ago50/50 is not at all like Quake.
- sneak 6y agoWe still had rotten.com and The Stile Project, which were equal/worse to anything on 50/50, WatchPeopleDie, or Motherless. Turns out, gross stuff isn’t actually harmful, despite being repulsive.