Post #2457637
2026-05-10 15:57 UTC
Replies (27)
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@tranquillity@mastodon.minionflo.net 2026-05-10 16:06
@danirabbit@mastodon.online lock them in the closet until they're 18 (?)
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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-05-10 16:06
@danirabbit@mastodon.online this gets at the heart of it. It sounds obvious, but not enough people have really internalized that their community includes children, and our responsibility towards them is as community members.
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@adamvs1@mastodon.world 2026-05-10 16:09
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Into the streets, and looking for change. The ‘powerful’ never learn.
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@Mimesatwork@wandering.shop 2026-05-10 16:19
@danirabbit@mastodon.online To the mines. That's the plan, isn't it? Work the mines or get pregnant and stay home.
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@CliffsEsport@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 16:41
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Darkweb? I'm guessing that age BS will push more in that direction.
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@nuwagaba2@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 17:06
@danirabbit@mastodon.online We don't need to go anywhere. We just have to fight for what belongs to us otherwise we shall not run enough to find somewhere safe for us.
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@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza 2026-05-10 17:06
@danirabbit@mastodon.online there is a story of cultural theory I've had in my head since my early 20s, which I've been slowly evolving. We keep going people siloed into artificial groups of all one age bracket until they're 18, and often until their early 20s if they attend higher education. It's unnatural, and it's an artificial situation that they will never encounter again the rest of their lives. As a result, because they are shut off away from their parent's culture they develop their own. Which is why every generation has their own music, fashion, and even language. It also makes parent's feel alienated from their kids and vice versa. Then these young people are thrust out into the real world, and they never experience such an environment again. I had the misfortune of being labeled "gifted" while not getting the actual diagnosis that really applies (autistic). Instead of letting "gifted" kids move at their own accelerated pace we generally keep them in the same group with their "peers" because if we put them in with older kids they would feel alienated. That's the theory. Fuck, I was already alienated. Then I had to wait around and try to occupy my brain while the other kids caught up. That just made me feel even less party of the group. If the internet had been a thing back then it might have really helped my mental health. I'm rambling a bit. I could do the subject s lot more justice long-form, and I've been thinking about doing just that when time permits. Suffice to say, I think a lot of society's ills stem from generational divide. Locking kids away from online life will absolutely make that worse.
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@neutronstar@infosec.exchange 2026-05-10 17:10
@danirabbit@mastodon.online There won’t be anywhere left to go. This, the social media bans that is, carry the same sickening energy as when restaurants employ ”teenage repulsers” or whatever you can call them. Those devices that play high frequency sounds that only children and teenagers can hear to ward them off public spaces. Then youngsters started going online to express themselves and to build their own opinions. And now, nope, let’s set up age restrictions to *protect* the children. This is, in my opinion, like putting a bird in a cage to *protect* it, while it just wanted to fly free. I might be preaching to the choir but I’m expressing my right to free speech. It seems like it’s going to be increasingly important for us to do that, if I’ve read the signs right. I hope that I have not.
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@eibart@zirk.us 2026-05-10 18:28
@danirabbit@mastodon.online who is »we« supposed to be?
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@dianshuo@mstdn.io 2026-05-10 18:43
@danirabbit@mastodon.online the unpopular observation is that we used to have lots of spaces and it was for everyone’s wellbeing. There was never a universal space and trying to do that is causing a lot of the problems.
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@frang@meow.social 2026-05-10 19:36
@danirabbit@mastodon.online The Satanic Temple is always open
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@deFractal@infosec.exchange 2026-05-10 20:36
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Some locals and I, as well as several other allied groups, are providing local young people private group access to physical spaces (with their choice of how to characterize the gathering internally and externally), their choice of banned books in print or DRM-free ebooks and audiobooks (hence those compatible with surveillance- and censorship-free apps), their choice of protest music on CD (with use of USB optical drives), their choice of outdoor activity gear (with their choice of coaching), their choice of how to convert one of our elders’ lawns into a permaculture garden, or their choice of art, craft, textile, cullinary, woodwork, electronics, or mechanical supplies (with their choice of volunteer expert guidance). Outwardly, they may be going to a study group or tutoring session or whatever else they need to call it to keep various controlling people off their backs. Behind closed doors, they may be reading and discussing every book their local school board and library board has taken off the shelves, linking their local banned book club via video with another one in a neighbouring community whose demographics make them targets of locals’ bigotry, sharing in and dancing to each other’s protest music, modding thrifted clothes into body-pluralistic defiance fashion possibly with outer layers to camouflage when expedient, or working with an engineer, a mechanic, and an electrician to convert a pre-enshittification era ICE car into a BEV. I’m not one of the facilitating older folks with a bunch of unneeded space or free time or saved money to share, but it only takes one or two in the community network to provide them that (or a few more, if groups have markedly different preferred activities). What I bring is experience cat herding and expertise providing and instructing in use of secure and private communications, and decades of studying underground resistance movements. Others bring skills as counsellors or social workers. Others bring expertise in activities the young people choose to do in the private spaces the few well-off community network members donate use of. Others design the public-facing front (such as the study group or volunteering organization website and social media), to let those escaping coercive control conceal what they’re doing. Organize. Whatever the fash try to deny them, provide. Then step back as much as you can while keeping everyone safe, allow them their privacy, facilitate their autonomy, and follow their lead when they need guidance or support.
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@bjo@schafweide.eu 2026-05-10 20:56
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Working as slaves /s
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@VaderKant@norden.social 2026-05-10 21:46
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Work / war. Than grave. If they can afford to rent one.
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@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz 2026-05-10 22:39
@danirabbit@mastodon.online when I saw this boosted I didn't see the preceding post, and thought this was about age restrictions and id etc for social media - which kind of shows your point, how thorough-going this exclusion of the young is.
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@Epic_Null@infosec.exchange 2026-05-11 02:15
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Church, bible studdy, and to their rooms where they are seen but not heard.
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@freya@social.highenergymagic.net 2026-05-11 05:23
@danirabbit@mastodon.online simple answer: they aren't. they're supposed to have nothing outside their parents, their school approved reading materials and ,in the cases of a lot of the people pushing this, the church
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@rasmus91@fosstodon.org 2026-05-11 07:52
@danirabbit@mastodon.online and that question is one that no parent wants to have to ask about their child. When there's no obvious place to exercise an interest in a healthy way, it'll be done in a sketchy place in an unhealthy way.
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@dnkboston@apobangpo.space 2026-05-11 08:10
@danirabbit@mastodon.online They'll get let into our spaces as long as they do exactly as we say.
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@Rania@freesewing.social 2026-05-11 08:21
@danirabbit@mastodon.online I’m Rania from Gaza 💔 We lost our home, and now my children and I are living in a fragile tent with no protection from the cold or illness. Watching my children suffer while I can’t provide even the basics is breaking my heart every single day. Please don’t leave us alone in this pain 🙏 Even the smallest donation or a simple share could help us survive 🤍
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@archivescribe@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 11:56
@danirabbit@mastodon.online We live in a place where the state, and its paid up “elected” agents, look at children like they’re animals to be controlled. Of course, seeing how things are going, our same government does not seem too crazy about the adults, either. Control and profits are the twin evils and motives of our age.
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@foolishowl@social.coop 2026-05-11 15:14
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Some of the powerful have plans, but I think they've all drunk too deeply of the idea that they can do whatever they want and let the externalities take care of themselves. And what they want is for anyone and anything that questions them or gets in their way to not exist anymore.
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@amro@todon.nl 2026-05-11 18:07
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Kinder-Gulag ☝️
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@wronglang@bayes.club 2026-05-11 18:17
@danirabbit@mastodon.online crime, clearly
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@capn_b@beige.party 2026-05-12 01:48
@danirabbit@mastodon.online seems pretty clear they're going to hit the streets. if we're lucky, ready to scrap
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@wakingrufus@bigshoulders.city 2026-05-12 02:02
@danirabbit@mastodon.online They yearn for the mines
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@dcre@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 05:12
@danirabbit@mastodon.online To the illegal spaces