@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
Post #1643193
2026-04-24 15:35 UTC
@quinn
As for torturing and sickening people:
I was bullied in school at the age of 12. After that, my only source of friendship and conversation was online. My main source of joy was tinkering with computers.
If I had been banned from computers and the Internet, as is now being proposed for children that age, I would have had nothing to do and no one but my parents to talk to.
*That* is torture. *That* would have made me sick. And that isn't being perpetrated by social media companies.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-24 16:24
@quinn (For the record, I am now in my 40s.)
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@apz@some.apz.fi 2026-04-24 17:02
@argv_minus_one @quinn Similar story, but BBS days way before the public had heard of the Internet. Basically the only place to find people who weren't the narrow minded asses.