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sensitivetopicacct LinkThank you for sharing this, it was a very interesting read. I've been seeing things from a bit of a different perspective - my girlfriend does full service sex work, and the pandemic has...Thank you for sharing this, it was a very interesting read. I've been seeing things from a bit of a different perspective - my girlfriend does full service sex work, and the pandemic has definitely impacted that. Much less "pro domme" with a fancy name and website and whatnot though.
I've got no idea. Probably not possible completely. I learned about computers in order to bypass and disable any parental controls my parents tried to use. Kids are smarter than adults tend to give them credit for, whatever cracks there are will be found and exploited and passed on. Ended up spending far too much time on 4chan and being groomed. Reflecting, education is the only thing that could've helped, and neither the schools or my parents gave me knowledge beyond "don't share your name or address." Of course, there are far more things that can fuck you up than just someone finding out where you live.
cw gore mention, cp mention, ed discussion
god, just flashbacks to watching beheading videos and shit. had forgotten about that. no clue why I was doing that. also realizing that in some of those massive libraries of cp floating around, I'm probably in there. haha 🙃 not to mention the racist, sexist, transphobic mire that seemed normal.just remembered also the horror that is proana (pro-anorexia) communities. dipped back into those recently as a "reality safari" also nostalgia also idk, something else. not doing so hot. the new thing is "meanspo" wherein (mostly) 13-16yo people are mean to each other about their perceived fatness on purpose to further their weight loss. and it's like totally consensual, they thank each other for it. there's group fasts/fasting competitions and people post what they eat and weigh or give tips on purging. those kind of communities were horrible for me when I was at the height of my struggle and they only seem worse now. I think.. I think we have to accept we can't protect the kids 100%, even from themselves, as much as that sucks, but give them up to date education, tools, and support in a non-judgemental manner, same as sex ed (but better, please don't just roll this into Health class), and try to trust them enough that they'll live up to it. minimize splash damage of mistakes (which will happen it's ok) and maybe listen to the kids instead of just prescribing. peer education?
I think this next generation stands a much much better chance of raising internet-aware kids. Or not, I've been seeing people my age fall for the antivax attractors. How are you gonna raise kids with critical thinking skills if you lack them yourself? A big part of the knowledge I hope to pass on is "how to not go off the deep end" and I dunno it's all gonna be deep ends before long. Let the great unraveling of the metaparadigm begin, as it always has been beginning.
But maybe we can do better even if not perfect. Yes federated, local. Need to kill or nationalize FB/insta/tiktok/snap/etc so that there aren't cthonic megaliths trying to squeeze every child's life for ad revenue. Not that the adults are faring much better, been seeing a common sentiment that gen Z is having to educate their boomer parents out of Q etc rabbit warrens.
Social problems need better than purely technological solutions.
Unfinished/unpolished, sorry, hard to write about and trying to bias towards posting. Know this isn't tildes' style but maybe it is useful enough that you can forgive my gestures. Gonna go eat some pasta.