The only time redditors believe in privacy is when it can be used to brainwash/groom/molest kids
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When we got internet on our desktop my mom just said something to effect of "You're not going to watch porn are you?". My sister and I said no so she didn't bother setting up parental controls. Then I became a teenager and broke that promise. Of course we weren't retarded enough to give out personal info, so we were never in danger. It's a little quaint that porn was the biggest danger back then rather than troons trying to groom minors into their sick lifestyle.
And back then, porn was generally way more vanilla. When I was a young teen, I probably couldn't have found a dickgirl getting railed by a horse if I tried. Now, "horse" has 135,000 tags on a rule34 booru. It's more shocking to me that some teens make it through adolescence as a reasonably normal person.
Online access was so much less ubiquitous back then. That wouldn't have even been on the radar for me because I wasn't constantly exposed to every pervert with a smartphone. The freakiest shit I ever found early on was lesbian first time stuff, and I believe you had to directly search for it for the most part. It wasn't like current year where the algorithm leads to tranny shit regardless of where you start.
Yeah the shit I found early on really formed my tastes going forward. Hard to imagine tranny shit being everywhere not having disastrous effects on young kids....
I am the person that I am today because of the freedom I was able to have on the internet in middle school onward and especially in high school. I would love to be able to allow my kids the same freedom, but unless things make a drastic change for the better it just isn't justifiable.
More vanilla and more human really. The furry and otherkin stuff alone is just bizarre. Monster/monster girl fetishes are also weird in their own right.
I don't know how much of this I think is "extreme" or "dangerous" or how much of it is just a bit of "generation gap", but at the very least I find it a little bizarre, and I think it only distances things like romance, love, passion, intimacy, and connection between two people even further from reality.
And I say this as someone who's long held a very favorable view of kinks and sexual exploration in the bedroom. At a certain point I really have to wonder if going as far as it has, these people even recognize that they're still humans.
To be fair, we were never so much better than kids these days.
when were you a teen?
IMO it's especially more important nowadays.
To their credit, there's people in the comments defending the practice of checking their child's phone and giving examples of why they should.
When there’s proven troons shipping out hormones illegally to children while trying to groom them it’s far more necessary than ever
For real!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhjAcZJm-es
There was a time when schools drilled it into your head not to post personal info online, particularly your name or location. I can only assume privacy and security isn't even mentioned these days.
Same, and it's definitely fucked me up.
I wouldn't give a child any child I cared about an unsupervised, unfiltered internet connection. You have NO idea what they are gonna direct their attention to, and if it's something fucked up, the damage will already be done by the time you notice.