I have yet to read any coherent argument why any kind of media that young people actively choose to watch, actively seek out, would ever be harmful to them.
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It’s the battle-cry of insecure folk growing old.
If I don’t like it, it must be bad. But if I don’t understand it, it must be dangerous.
I would have thought that by now, enough voting adults would have grown up also having watched online pornography when they were underage and realizing it didn't harm them.
There's something off it's not just some conservative folks.
It's happening everywhere suddenly out of nowhere.
Steam, itch, youtube, UK, australia.
Something definitely off.
If you really think this is out of no where you haven’t been paying attention.
The moral panic has always been present, sure. But I don't if it alone is to blame.
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Fox News?
Or really any media that gives a warped view of reality. Movies glorifying drug use, eating disorders, stuff like that. I'm sure you've heard about people getting hurt from tiktok "challenges". Kids are fucking stupid.
So they prefer to spy on what their kids are doing? Bah, those ministers are nonce creeps.
Terf island is controlled by nonces
Not their kids. Yours and mine.
Make controlled corn illegal.
Make VPN illegal.
Make horny illegal.
Make showing body and hairs in public illegal.
This little drama may be UK specified, but govs are pushing borders of how much they can squeeze us before society starts to boil. We should boil and explode fast and faster each time, making such gov illegal instead.
Just saying... And I did not speak out, Because I was not an UK citizen.
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Brits can kiss their beloved VPNs goodbye.
They can pry it from my cold dead hands.
And hello to a VPS with RDP maybe.
Unironically, I think there's upsides for children being under silly and arbitrary rules that they have to figure out how get around.
Sure, at home or school. Enforced by parents or teachers, not by society on everyone.
Society doesn't do shit... They take it like obedient dogs they are
This will enforced by the government and at a gun point if needed.
Anything the society allows their government to do, it bears responsibilty for. Doesn't matter if your average citizen takes an active role. If they don't take an active role in resisting, or at least sub-verting or sabotaging, they don't need or deserve your excuses.
I am all about the french cutlery but this is still a bit heavy for me.
I mean, extending it down to the individual level for every detail of law is a bit of a stretch, but my point was that the actions of government are a consequence of the actions or inaction of society-at-large. Individuals who want to distance themselves from the actions of a fascist government and still count themselves part of that jurisdiction's society should take some sort of action, even anonymously.
If they are to be counted as victims, it serves no-one for them to pretend that main-stream society(or society beyond whatever group they identify with) is blameless or a solid ally versus that government.
"Society" as a concept is more prone to excluding those without power or influence; It de facto includes those with the means to steer government.
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El paquete - UK edition, coming to a flash drive near you XD