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What are your thoughts on restricting children’s access to pornography online? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I oppose on principle any attempt to further restrict, marginalize, exclude, or otherwise other young people.

I also oppose on principle any attempt to worsen surveillance state overreach.

And I oppose out of sheer fucking common sense anything a Republican says.

For all these reasons and more, I oppose this entire concept and its execution.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Parents can install tools on devices (or use the ones that are built-in). Kids will find ways around that and that's fine. Kids have to put in some effort and learn how to outsmart vendors and their parents. This will add to their problem-solving skills. When they finally get to the sex, they'll be fine.

It's really about teaching kids to have a healthy attitude about sex and sexuality. Republican kids will be taught that it's bad and they're bad for thinking about it. They'll be fucked up in various ways. Proper parenting will teach kids that not everything they see on the internet is healthy to pursue and help them approach the topic in a mature fashion. Those kids will turn out like the rest of us who grew up with porn online. Fine.