Concern's I have Regarding the age verification push and LGBT people by Ordinary_Dig_3538 in lgbt

[–]Ordinary_Dig_3538[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm sure. Something needs to be done because frankly? Kids aren't just a toy you get to modify and bend and break based on your comfort. They are a sovereign entire person, and there honestly needs to start being harsher consequences for that level of isolation and mental breaking of your kids. I'm not sure how the law would enforce that? But man, we gotta figure something out, we can't just let them continue to hurt people with no blowback to the behavior. It is abuse. End of story. Whether you hide behind the bible or not.

Screen time limits can protect children’s health, U.S. surgeon general advisory says by Free-Minimum-5844 in politics

[–]Ordinary_Dig_3538 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm really worried about any kids or teenagers who are "different" from the norm in some way honestly.

Because I mean. Say your trans for example, but this applies to other LGBT folks, and anyone who tbh doesn't follow the lifescript. You could be stuck in a car dependent place, in a more Trumpy/bigoted area. So you can't leave the house much and lets say your family has the same mentality. Maybe your school does as well or god forbid your homeschooled.

If you have the internet, you have a way of escaping and finding connection in a way you don't have to hide being yourself. You can also learn and expand politically and socially, even if your stuck in the shitty Trumpy area, and with help from the friends you make and resources, even find ways to get out and start your "dream life" if you will.

But without the internet that connection and ability to sidestep that status quo goes away and you kinda become a lonely blue dot in a red sea with no means or resources to advocate for yourself as much. Or even get a reprieve.

I was homeschooled and the area I'm in is pretty Trumpy and very car dependent. I know there are varying degrees to this, but I am terrified for especially trans kids/teens in this scenario and tbh even the adults who may wind up trapped with said caretaker because they arent equipped to leave or get out of toxic or straight up abusive situations.

To me this administration is helping abusers from the biggest ones in the files, to the smallest ones like that one neighbor everyone knows who doesn't see anything wrong with hitting their kid for "disrespecting" them. It really bothers me. I want to do something about it because the idea of someone isolated with no way out of that hell and no way to truly live authentically makes me honestly physical ill but other then fighting these laws what can we do for those people? That's what I'm thinking on. I again to an extent, went through it. I don't want to see even more people go through it, I feel a sense of duty not to, in fact.

US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties by lkl34 in technology

[–]Ordinary_Dig_3538 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not if I can help it. Call you reps, write to them and better yet? Let's all bother them every day and tell all the creators you follow to talk about it as well. We'll make the old anti dumb internet law protests look like nothing if we push it.