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I find the choice of "14 year olds" quite fascinating, because 14 year olds don't have voting rights. If 14 is replaced with 18, then suddenly the phrase takes

I find the choice of "14 year olds" quite fascinating, because 14 year olds don't have voting rights. If 14 is replaced with 18, then suddenly the phrase takes a completely different tone, since then it'd be disenfranchising a block of the population that has legitimate voting rights. I feel that 14 was chosen deliberately to give teh additional implication that CISPA opponents "don't have the right to oppose it" or something along those lines.

fyi80 14y ago
It's also bizarrely tone-deaf metaphor-mixing. the pejorative "basement" refers to an adult who doesn't have their own residence, and so lives in extra space in (but near the edge of) their parent's home, while pretending it is a separate residence. It doesn't make any sense to call a 14-year old a "basement"-dweller, they would have a regular bedroom.