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Every HN thread on social media or porn inevitably gets overrun with "but think of the children" comments calling for banning kids from social media, or the int
by pibaker 9mo ago
Every HN thread on social media or porn inevitably gets overrun with "but think of the children" comments calling for banning kids from social media, or the internet, or from having a phone at all.
And then every time a country actually tries to ban children from the internet, they cry "but my privacy!!!" As if having to hand your id to the state to use the internet isn't exactly what you asked for. As if the regimes most interested in "protecting the kid" aren't exactly the ones who puts you in jail for a meme too spicy.
You reap what you sow. Congrats on making the internet worse.
- iamnothere 9mo agoThese are not the same people. I doubt that most of the people pushing for mandatory restrictions on child access care about privacy at all.
- pibaker 9mo agoYou will be surprised by the number of people (even among self proclaimed libertarians) who think children have no rights and are essentially their parents' properties.
- SauntSolaire 9mo agoGranted, but that's different than thinking they're the states property.
- sadeshmukh 9mo agoSounds like the Goomba fallacy: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy