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>These users include young people exploring their gender or sexual identity And who would they need to hide from?
by yupyupyups 1y ago
>These users include young people exploring their gender or sexual identity
And who would they need to hide from?
- yamazakiwi 1y agoFrom people who would harm them? Oh you're that anti-games, anti-porn guy, best to ignore anything you say.
- yupyupyups 1y agoI'm not anti-games. >From people who would harm them? Like who? I really hope you don't mean the kids' parents.
- bloqs 1y agothis is coming across as intentionally obtuse questioning. Many people, including governments think that adopting specific sexual preferences and identities is wrong and worthy of criminal charges and harassment at a minimum.
- terminalshort 1y agoProblem is, parents are literally the most likely people to do that
- account42 1y agoOnly if you have a very biased definition of harm.
- terminalshort 1y agoNo, seriously, look up stats on who gets charged with hurting children and you'll see that it's mostly parents. Sure, once in a while there's a pedophile handing out candy from a van, but almost all of the time it's a parent or some other person trusted by the parents to watch the kid.
- matt-p 1y agoSchool bullys, parents, friends, community members, church leaders and many others I imagine. The idea was that it would have your real name and it was verified by your ID.
- yupyupyups 1y ago>parents You do understand that there are creeps out there grooming children, right? Parents definitely do need to have oversight over their own kids. Children should absolutely not have privacy on the internet. The ID requirement is terrible, but saying that children need privacy to explore their sexuality on the internet is very problematic. If this is the position the UK government holds then that brings into question their desire to protect children online in the first place.
- matt-p 1y agoI do, of course. It's just worth considering that not every parent is how you or I might like or imagine them to be. For some children their parents finding out they're gay would cause a great deal of real world physical or phycological harm. It's a really tricky thing to navigate, but aside from saying 'no children should be allowed access to the internet unsupervised' it gets really difficult.
- kelipso 1y agoYep, I feel like there is a cognitive dissonance somewhere in there. On one thread about social media and internet affecting young people negatively, you have people saying parents should control their kids' exposure to the internet. And in another thread about ID laws, you have people saying kids should have privacy to roam the internet.
- watwut 1y agoTo be fair, those are not actually in opposition. Because they dont believe parents can actually do it. They just want to throw responsibility and blame on parents, so that government dont restrict porn access. Parents are just a tool and scapegoats.