You can get away with destroying an incredible amount of human freedom by just poking a little at moral disgust and uttering the magic words "we have to protect the children"
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The grifters crowing that opposition to Apple pawing through our phones was the voice of a “screeching minority”.
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idk wtf this apple thing is, I was talking a out ppl trying to take down onlyfans
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This feels perennial. But I wonder if widespread adoption of better views of child development, parenting, and education would make a dent here.
“No yeah actually I am thinking of the children.”
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That is sometimes true.
But also sometimes true is that the people who children need protection from, will try to discredit that protection via accusations of moral panic, overkill, and pearl clutching.
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"the children" have been sending each other nudes since they were 14
it's about protecting the parents from the horrors of child sexuality
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Sometimes those words are just fluff. Sometimes those words are very true, no matter what freedoms we might be poking at.
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Yeah but a lot of the things people include as equal value elements of the set ‘freedom’ are not that important. Some freedoms are extremely important, other freedoms are meh.
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