Post #3330793
2026-06-15 08:37 UTC
That's such an unimaginably horrible realisation that we shy away from recognising it, but it's true and we have to confront it if we want to keep children safe. Locking them out of online contact is likely to isolate that block of vulnerable children to a worse degree. Furthermore, when children go on social media anyway, which they will do, they're now doing something illegal, which makes it much *harder* for them to ask an adult for help when something goes wrong online.
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@toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-06-15 09:16
@JubalBarca@scholar.social The main thing it achieves is to scratch the English itch to ban something when unrelated things seem to be slipping out of control. It's the equivalent of stress eating for the British establishment.
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@GinevraCat@toot.community 2026-06-15 23:38
@JubalBarca@scholar.social Off the top of my head I know 3 friends who were sexually abused as children. One by a (church) babysitter. One by their uncle. One by their grandfather. We HAVE to acknowledge it. We have to give kids ways to contact adults outside their immediate families.