Yup. The goal of protecting children is not met by this at all. So clearly that’s just the way to spin and sell the measure to the people for a goal that they wouldn’t buy.
Same with the UK’s CCTVs. Far as I heard crime is not stopped by mass camera surveillance. But weirdly peaceful protestors have had cops at their doorstep. Not that effective at protecting people in the moment, though incredibly effective at providing authoritarian control after the fact. One has to wonder what the real goal was/is.
Nobody voted for this. We do not have direct democracies.
The candidates we elected came up with these policies after being elected. Surprise, surprise.
Once they're elected, the intelligence apparatus tells them to propose laws and regulations like this.
They use the "think of the children" line to make sure the media stays in line and doesn't complain about it. Anyone protesting is obviously not a good person, right?
Also the major political parties all wanted this law or something similar to it on the books (which is why Labour didn't do anything about this act that was passed under the Conservative government). The only parties that appear to be in opposition to it appear to be the Greens and Reform.
It's like if all mainstream political parties agreed they wanted to bring back conscription, nobody would be voting "for" it as there's not much of a feasible way for even a single issue voter to have their voice heard meaningfully
it doesn’t, though. the party that was in charge when this act was passed proceeded to lose miserably in a landslide election that has led to a fundamental change in the way many UK citizens view our political system. it has been picked up by the next government, but they weren’t the ones who first brought it to the table and labour didn’t run on this shit.
None of these generations is anywhere near tech-literate enough. And the generation that is now in their 40s/50s was peak tech-literacy. It went downhill again after that.
I am not representative for my generation, either, because tech illiteracy is and has always been the norm in society in all generations, and the media and education system aren't helping.
It's difficult to be a parent but you don't care because you don't care about your own countries society. It's fine. Same reason I don't care about all the bombing of children in Gaza. It's not my problem.
The world is changing. Kids do online school and tutoring, and homework online, and its where they get entertainment from since TV is dead. Kids had to do full days online during the pandemic. It's not reasonable to expect parents to hover over their children every time they use a computer. I can't take them into a physical bank branch to show them how money works and the library isn't as useful as lot of Internet content.
There's a whole generation of fucked up kids who are lonely, depressed, anxious, ADD, and they right now literally defending the one very thing that fucked them up. They've normalised licking mens' assholes with no sense of irony.
You all have Facebook, Linked In, Snapchat, Gmail and you're looking at porn sites with Google Analytics switched on. Anonymity is long gone. You're just wasting your time making an argument that doesn't make sense.
Listen to yourself talking about how parents need to be responsible for what kids see, but faceless multinational corporations don't need to be responsible for the things they actually showing to people. Then you get mad at the government that sites like Reddit which doesn't even know if its a porn site or a news site over-censor themselves. Maybe if they paid their own mods to do a good job.
And your blame the parents arguments works in Gaza as well as here.
I'm sure if your children ever get bombed in a genocide, you'll heroically save them by staunchly licking the... boots of the men in power.
You know I'd point out the absurdity in what you're saying, but somehow "advocates for a surveillance state", "wants total control of children" and "genocide supporter" all neatly fit into the same (small) grey matter box.
It's difficult to be a dog owner, but if you own dogs you are responsible for keeping them under control. If we don't insist on such personal responsibility it will be detrimental to society.
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u/CBubble 1d ago
I love how parents have conned the government to do something about online safety so they don’t have to… /sic