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  • Athenahere@4d2.social
    Jun 25, 2026, 8:04 AM

    @openrightsgroup @JamesBaker These are the kind of laws and regulations you get from dehumanizing an entire group of people. They only "care about children" because to them children are not sentient and can have even their most basic functions restricted for the sake of improving their safety by a marginal amount. Next would be a policy called "No kid left outside" where it's illegal to be outside if you're under 18 between 9pm and 6am without an adult to prevent kidnapping.

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  • Athenahere@4d2.social
    Jun 25, 2026, 11:07 AM

    @MisuseCase @openrightsgroup @JamesBaker Yes it is, I tried picking an example that is plausible. I can imagine them talking about how parents won't have to worry about their children going out late at night anymore. They would talk about how children don't need to be outside so late anyway, "what's the point? A child only goes home and school and has no need for agency outside of a curriculum."

    It sickens me how comfortable people seem to be with controlling children to extreme degrees.

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  • Misuse CaseMisuseCase@twit.social
    Jun 25, 2026, 11:10 AM

    @here @openrightsgroup @JamesBaker This is also an issue with young people who have jobs. Somehow they never get considered in youth curfews, except for “oh, we’ll make an exception for young people who work.” But then you have a whole “papers, please” regime for that.

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  • Athenahere@4d2.social
    Jun 25, 2026, 11:19 AM

    @MisuseCase @openrightsgroup @JamesBaker Asking people to show their papers just for being outside is so dystopian and the worst part is I know there are people who support this without even asking the opinion of any young person because they don't care enough about the group they are "protecting". They just think the world is hostile and everything must be cast away so they can live happily ever after in their perfect garden with tall walls.

    I am really angry at this, my thoughts are all over.

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  • Janie Karma S 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏿Karma_J@mastodon.social
    Jun 25, 2026, 8:40 AM

    @openrightsgroup @JamesBaker

    You can't have the younger generation voting against you if they're aware of other options. Limiting news and social media is forcing the younger generation to stay ignorant of societal issues.

    Politicians that run on platforms which might be favorable to a younger populace, will remain unelected and the entrenched, corrupted politicians will stay in power longer.

    This is just another part of the plan to limit and control information.

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  • James BakerJamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org
    Jun 25, 2026, 10:06 AM

    @mattiz6276 @openrightsgroup I think promoting good ways for people to access quality news is important . Really teaching critical thinking skills so people can judge what is or isn’t a good source. Using state power to restrict news is a bad idea and will totally be misused by people in power.

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  • SupermoosieSuperMoosie@mastodon.au
    Jun 25, 2026, 1:09 PM

    @JamesBaker @mattiz6276 @openrightsgroup

    There is more to news than just NEWS from media companies.

    It might be the score of the local netball game your friend is in.

    It might be there is a serious car crash and the road is blocked. So you have to go thr long way and get a different bus then a train. Except the trains are out of schedule.

    It might be your cousin overseas is pregnant.

    Or the volunteer group you are part of, has had to cancel this weeks training.

    Or your teacher won a kayak race in another state.

    Or a bushfire has burn down houses, but your who classmate who lives in the area is fine.

    Examples from my kids use.

    Yes some if this might make it into traditional news. You might read in the paper next week.

    But nothing beats the near real time information on social media. From macro level down to a personal level.

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  • SupermoosieSuperMoosie@mastodon.au
    Jun 25, 2026, 1:30 PM

    @JamesBaker

    The bushfire.

    Quickest reaction time for News was 30 minutes for radio. Hour for tv. Others took longer as no weekend staff.

    Government took 15 minutes to get SMS's out. As well as app alerts, website update etc

    While social media was on to in in minutes. Tracking its movement, roads closed, impact as houses went up, jumped a km. Total chaos and information not all correct. But enough to get a good idea what was happening and where the danger approximately was.

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  • Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶a_cubed@mastodon.social
    Jun 25, 2026, 1:54 PM

    @openrightsgroup
    Like so many of the ills of rampant capitalist social media we have the solutions from earlier systems. Second Life, still running after twenty years, has teen-world and kids world separate from the general world. Not perfect, but it seems to work better thathe free for all or ban for all.

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  • jmjmjmjm@mstdn.social
    Jun 25, 2026, 2:07 PM

    @a_cubed @openrightsgroup the same solution employed by public school systems to stop elementary school kids from having to deal with puberty-crazed middle school kids who are protected from being pummeled every day by high school kids (who we eventually throw to the sharks in college).

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  • Wolf_BaginskiWolf_Baginski@meow.social
    Jun 25, 2026, 3:20 PM

    @a_cubed @openrightsgroup

    I am not sure there ever was a kid's world in SL. There has been restricted space for "Adult" activities using some sort of age/identity check. That has included some combat-gaming.

    I don't recall just when they set their minimum age rule.

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