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'Kids Online Safety Act' will deliberately target trans content, senator admits.
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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which is good. kids should not get influenced or make any decision at such age.
If you grew up without anything influencing you, you're either an inanimate object or a cat (those bastards don't give a fuck)
Good luck not being influenced by your surroundings. If you feel you haven't, you're blind
Ooooo totally because I (straight) was totally influenced by my gay uncle and other gay stuff I’ve seen online 🙄
While we’re at it we should get rid of cartoons because kids shouldn’t see stuff like someone slowly falling with an umbrella and trying it in real life since they’re influenced.
Just because someone is exposed to something at a young age doesn’t mean they’ll end up making decisions.
I hardly find the link with trans... same with the argument to "then ban straight content too". Gay guy doesn't pretend to be an anime girl .
trans is about mental disorder, dissociation between mind, body and frustration.
Yall also said the same thing about gay people. It was considered a mental disorder. All of these talking points are recycled, but then just slightly altered to fit trans people instead.
FUCK YOU, I never said that. Can't you just read what I write.
The amount of irony in this small comment is amazing.
I've always thought that about religious youth programs. How is that not indoctrination of the youth?
It is absolutely indoctrination. My youth group pastor spent many years indoctrinating us college-bound youth against the "world." Evolution, climate change, premarital sex ("ladies, do you want to be like a used piece of gum?"), abortion ("ladies, abortion will make you kill yourself"), porn ("ladies, watching porn will make you unable to ever have an orgasm"), getting pregnant ("Tina is now going to be shamed in front of all of us, let us listen to her impregnated self tearfully apologize to us for having premarital sex and getting all used up"). Fuckers.
I agree.
So all straight and cis content should be banned too, right, or is it only "degenerate" (to use the word the nazis used) content that should be influencing them?
(straight cis white man speaking. I don't have a horse in this race, but I'm sure not going to let people act like they have the moral high ground without them investigating their beliefs themselves.)
Yes
Cooll so how exactly will you ban all straight content? You gonna ban stuff like Romeo and Juliet because you're too lazy to supervise your kid and they might read it?
Juliet was traditionally played by a man.
Yes, because women were not allowed to act. Another discriminatory practice. What are you suggesting by bringing that up?
Are you going to answer their questions, btw?
It was better when it was just two men, nobody corrupting the thoughts of children with sex
Was just pointing out how silly the argument is.
You gonna ban stuff like because you’re too lazy to supervise your kid and they might read it?Can literally be applied to any content and doubly so when your example has a history of gender-bending.I'm personally against banning any of the content because how can people make decisions without knowledge? Gay and trans people exist whether you like it or not, pretending they don't is just bad parenting.
How are you going to prevent children from being influenced by any/all of the romantic relationships they see in every day life? If movies/books/ect are so bad, then what would be do with real life examples?
Yall said the same thing about some of us being gay. Turns out when used all of the same talking points back then, we were still gay. I was influenced to not be gay, because gay people are disgusting pedophiles who worship Satan, and I ended up gay despite not being a pedophile or worshiping Satan.
First of all, kids will question their gender and sexuality whether you like it or not - internet or no internet. Secondly, the Internet is a safe haven for lgbtq+ kids and taking away those supportive communities is going to be nothing but harmful. What evidence do you have that exposure to lgbtq+ communities "corrupts" children? I'm guessing none because it just doesn't. Be better.
So true bestie