• recklessengagement@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Wrong way around. The law enforces more protections for children than adults, for which platforms are held to a higher standard.

    Specifically, I’m talking about the higher standards for data privacy, user tracking, and content moderation. These are things that are trivial for large companies to implement, but would be a huge hurdle for small teams of unpaid volunteers.

    • Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online
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      3 months ago

      Many people would like you to believe that, the reality is that these laws are designed to keep children away from support networks and just further enforce the idea of parents owning their children. They use these same garbage excuses when talking about children and HRT or puberty blockers, and trying to block trans kids from getting these treatments. They call that “protection” as well.

      Things aren’t as they say they are. People aren’t honest about their motives. If that’s new to you, wake up, it’s 2025 people have been lying about the real reasons for decades, it’s not and never has been a new concept.

      • recklessengagement@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        You make some good points. I agree there are a lot of traditional ideals engrained in our justice system that enforce archaic power structures and perpetuate harm onto vulnerable people. And you’re right, people often use “protecting the children” as an excuse to take more and more rights away from the general populace.

        That said, I still don’t think its productive to direct that frustration and anger at a volunteer moderator on a free, nonprofit platform.