Sob stories about children are always weaponized for oppression.
It was used to bash interracial marriage, gay rights, suppress dissent, attack the first amendment, and now this.
Whenever you hear some dramatic story involving kids about how you have to live a little less free, know the tactic.
The best way to protect children is to educate them to protect themselves, but that argument generally falls on deaf ears, doubly so when there's an opportunity to use "but the children" as a political cudgel.
Don’t forget the second amendment.
There's at least a defensible empirical basis for that one.
You may think your rights are still inviolable but it's materially different from claiming you're somehow against, say, interracial marriage to protect children.
It's also different from the one in question as the tactics won't work. Online pedos are where they always have been, where the children are - Roblox Minecraft TikTok... I really don't understand how age guarding, say, GNU Awk is going to help you here
I don't understand your point. Can you quote the part of the second amendment that specifically addresses children, or schools for that matter?
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You're on HN. Expect downvotes.
whats incredible to me are how many useful idiots out there STILL fall for it.
___ said hamas beaheaded 40 babies and that turned out to be a complete fabrication. That fake info was used in part to justify killing thousands of kids in ____
meanwhile the recent strike on Iran resulted in 80 little girls getting killed (with plenty of evidence) and its swept under the rug while we get blasted about the 7 soldiers that died.
More useful idiots are born every day, most of them never are educated and do not see their past blunders as anything wrong happening, they are completely blind to the real implication of their actions.
I know some idiots that read newspapers and technical papers and yet would rather have company like discord providing safety for their new born daughter but would vote for small govt republicans (or democrats, i don't care, it's just a label that is applicable now. they are mostly all the same) and do nothing about calling out the actual child predators and taking proper action against them. It is bonkers
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