▲ 271 ▼ Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone (www.theverge.com) submitted 3 years ago by GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world 81 comments fedilink hide all child comments Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.
[+] rich@feddit.uk 31 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee [S] 23 points 3 years ago Also, it's never ACTUALLY about parental rights and protecting children. Plenty of parents want their kids to grow up believing that there is nothing inherently sexual about a naked body, or about women, but their perspective and rights never seem to be considered. Think about how the reactionaries in control of many US states banned Drag Queen story hours and the like from libraries and schools, saying that it should be up to parents if they want their kids to go to them, only to then classify all drag shows as obscene and restricted to 18+. permalink fedilink source parent [–] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) UK “children” are just future UK “people” so how can they be cool? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago The Scots and Welsh are included and theyre pretty cool. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Honestly man as a dad of 3, this applies to the children too. I love them, but they are indeed Fucking idiotic, thick as two short planks bunch of pricks, the lot of them. Cunts. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee [S] 23 points 3 years ago Also, it's never ACTUALLY about parental rights and protecting children. Plenty of parents want their kids to grow up believing that there is nothing inherently sexual about a naked body, or about women, but their perspective and rights never seem to be considered. Think about how the reactionaries in control of many US states banned Drag Queen story hours and the like from libraries and schools, saying that it should be up to parents if they want their kids to go to them, only to then classify all drag shows as obscene and restricted to 18+. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) UK “children” are just future UK “people” so how can they be cool? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago The Scots and Welsh are included and theyre pretty cool. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago The Scots and Welsh are included and theyre pretty cool. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SCB@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Honestly man as a dad of 3, this applies to the children too. I love them, but they are indeed Fucking idiotic, thick as two short planks bunch of pricks, the lot of them. Cunts. permalink fedilink source parent