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Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Humanity never changes. Teenage me found the entire idea that I might need "protection from harmful content on the Internet" ridiculous. Now I have been an adult for more than ten years, I still find it ridiculous that people younger than me might need that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just think that people should be given access to comprehensive sex ed early enough in life that it's before they end up viewing something like pornography through their own actions.