Comment on Is there any Fediverse project aimed at creating a safe space for kids to interact within?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 days agoWe’re seeing technology do a lot of great things for kids. We’re seeing puberty blockers and vaccines save lives. We’re seeing kids with no adults they can trust find community on the internet. We’re seeing kids spread a message of hope and resilience and care for the environment across the world. We’re seeing renewable energy heat their homes and feed them. We’re seeing electric wheelchairs gives kids with no legs mobility. We’re seeing assistive speech devices give kids with auditory deficits a voice. We’re using cochlear implants and eyeglasses to let kids see and hear.
Technology is so great for kids. I would not want to raise a child without modern technology. Hell, without modern antibiotics and disinfectants and vaccines, it’s even odds they die before their first birthday.
gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I should have been more specific but I meant social media connectivity technologies
We don’t need public social media for any of those other things
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 days ago
Ah, well… No. I can understand how that opinion makes sense from a cishet perspective, but the internet has been a game changer for queer people. You do not want a generation of kids in conservative areas having nobody to talk to.
And when it comes to otherkin and plural kids, forget it. Social media bans are already scarring people and reifying traumas. We have a soaring rate of youth suicidality here in Australia https://www.suicidepreventionaust.org/reckless-haste-rushed-legislation-on-social-media-ban-risks-harm-to-young-australians/
gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m not cishet but your problem is not social media bans its the already existent homophobic violence present in society
Enabling private communications and making true knowledge available through technology are not the same things as just letting kids post things to the public internet via systems literally invented and designed to be addictive and profit off social harm
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 days ago
Nobody can solve homophobia overnight but people can make safe communities for queer kids on the internet. And that’s a good thing. We need to look after the next generation. We need to show up for them if their parents won’t.
The AIDS crisis caused a generation of queer people to grow up without their community elders. We’re still feeling the ramifications of that in the community. I don’t want a repeat of that. The kids need online role models.