Post #571901

2026-03-07 15:14 UTC

I really don’t like how the “protect the children” excuse every neo fascist government is touting to sell their wet dreams of tracking everyone 24/7, still gets debated like it has any validity. Kudos to Japan for having seemingly working child protection laws, but this just doesn’t have any relevance to the surveillance machine that’s currently being built around us. It’s coming even if every child disappeared today. I’d rather see more active discussions around what the next steps are, alternatives to the current web and guides how to set them up for example.

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@grey_maniac@lemmy.ca 2026-03-07 16:51

Sometimes it seems like it is less “protect the children” as it is “keep the children unsullied for the pedophile overlords” that is just being packaged as “protect the children.” It also seems like the aspiring overlord class wants to track all of the desired slave class to reduce the chances of guillotines. But a lot of how it’s allowed to take hold (in the west, at least) is because of the Abrahamic cult programming so many people still get while they’re too young to look at it critically. I recognize I come across as a raving conspiracy nut. Perhaps more sedately, I would phrase it this way: the use of heavily hierarchical mythology in early childhood installs belief systems that make the population much more likely to be eager to live within hierarchical social environments that serve the agendas of those best positioned to run, control, and benefit from a hierarchical world. And the mythology positions an unsullied, pure child as highly valued, making both “protect the children” effective, and making “violate the unsullied to prove your power” desirable goals and easy manipulations. Either way, any long-term solution is more likely to come from eliminating that hierarchical mythology before critical thinking is developed than any kind of universal ID, or the ridiculous OS level age API California is trying to force into play. Sorry for the rant.

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