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> I've been saying we need a separate Internet for kids. That is moronic. And destructive. Children are human beings, and are supposed to get a chance to grow
by Hizonner 11mo ago
> I've been saying we need a separate Internet for kids.
That is moronic. And destructive.
Children are human beings, and are supposed to get a chance to grow naturally into being community members. That is an incremental process. Not everybody does all the parts in the same order, nor at the same rate. And you don't suddenly snap from being a "child" into being an "adult", and reboot all your human connections in that moment.
You don't mature at all without interacting with some adult role models (not just seeing them from afar, and not just seeing the parts people want to show you). No, your parents are not enough. You also need to interact with slightly older, and substantially older, non-adults. The tight age cohort isolation produced by schools is already destructive enough to social development.
Children are also entitled to have access to information and activities, just like everybody else. And, no, not all of that would somehow get duplicated into your child ghetto.
And it means absolutely nothing that people "used to do that just fine without the Internet". That was before everything was done via the Internet.
> Not just because of pedos, but because young adults don't have the same level of respect and filters that one should have when dealing with kids and it's exposing them to behavior they shouldn't.
Get a fucking grip. Kids can handle knowing about behavior you don't like. They can handle knowing about really bad behavior. They can handle seeing what older people do,and what the consequences are. In fact, that is essential to the development of their own values and capacity for self-governance.
If you raise somebody in a box until the age of 18, don't be surprised if they can't deal with the outside world when you force them out of it.
- sanex 11mo agoLol you think your average internet gamer is a ROLE MODEL. My god what a joke. I've never heard worse things in my life than in a call of duty lobby and we don't need children exposed to that level of hatred when they're still innocent.
- Hizonner 11mo agoWhy do you hang out there then? And why is it the first thing you think of when you think about a giant worldwide information network? I try not to think of everybody who plays video games as an arrested adolescent in Mom's basement, but it's kind of hard. Especially with the "Lol" stuff.
- engineer_22 11mo agoYour opinion is unsettling. You seem to conscientiously ignore the vulnerability of young children. To the contrary you advocate for the violation of their innocence. For the love of all that is good I hope your opinion remains a lonely minority.
- sanex 11mo agoI am going to assume it's the ignorance of a twenty something who is far away from becoming a parent.
- Hizonner 11mo agoTry sixty-something with an adult child. There is a disease going around among the "youngsters" who are parents these days. I'd call it overprotectiveness, but it doesn't actually protect anybody, just stunts them and actually makes them vulnerable. What it is is what's known as a purity spiral, a dangerous form of groupthink in which people compete to be the most extreme.
- llbbdd 11mo agoSee also the hard-to-separate growing cohort of people who never leave their parents homes long after becoming adults, not because there are no opportunities to pursue, but because they only know how to do things they are given express permission and direction to do because that's all they've known.
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- engineer_22 11mo agoNah dude. Stay away from other people's kids, it's not a new rule.