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You wanna get a kiddy diddler messing with your kid? Because that's how you get a kiddy diddler messing with your kid.
The same parent that handed the kid a device to be on social media can also take the kid out somewhere to socialize with other kids.
Pretty sure you get a kiddy diddler messing with your kid by going to church.
When they gonna ban church for kids under 16?
Satanic Panic but this time about pedophiles.
These laws will be used to restrict information, not to protect anyway, don't delude youraelf.
I don't care about the laws, I don't think parents should be allowing access to social media to their five year olds. Preteens maybe, with heavy supervision, yeah that's reasonable, but not toddlers for fuck's sake.
The law can go fuck itself, sure, but parents need to step the fuck up in this day and age. There is no reason for a 1st grader to be posting to X/FB/whatever. They should be playing Legos, riding bikes, and digging holes in the playground dirt.
I've been in online communities since shortly after my 10th birthday and this has never once been a problem.
Most of my friends when I was a teenager were people I met online. It was beyond a reasonable doubt good for me to be on the Internet during that time because it was the only place where I fit in, where I could be myself.
If I ever have kids, I hope they fit in better than I did offline, but if they don't, there is no way I am going to prevent them from socializing in online communities.
That's great. That's a personal antecdote though. I was online, unsupervised at 14 years old back in the late 90s, and being into anime and furry shit, I definitely had more than a couple people online trying to roleplay sexual shit with me...a fourteen year old kid. Even though my account profiles stated so. Unfettered, unsupervised access is also not the solution. I'm basing my opinion on this on my own experience as well. There are a shitload of predators out there.
I am not saying a blanket, hamfisted ban is the solution either. This is more complex than being a black and white problem.