Also since they weren’t allowed on the internet till they were 21, those 21 year olds won’t know how to act on the internet. So now there’s 21 year olds roaming around who will need to figure all that shit out. They might get other aspects of being an adult but the internet will be completely alien.
It’s like when I saw people saying kids shouldn’t be allowed into the grocery store because someone was annoyed that kids didn’t know how to behave there yet. You just create a new and larger problem where adults don’t know how to act.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
The internet has been out for less time than some people have been alive. Are we sure we, as a species, know how to be an adult on the internet yet?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
We arent behaving appropriately IRL so i am not sure why youre setting higher standards for being online.
tomiant@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Free speech has been out for as long as humanity has existed, and every attempt at limiting it has ended badly.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Not really. Free speech is a cultural construct. It doesn’t exist without a huge swath of pre-agreed norms regarding rights, speech, freedom, … I’ll have you know, there are modern philosophers who argue against human rights. They would say human rights language pretends to be objective and universal, but it floats without a metaphysical anchor (unlike in the past) and in practice they only exist if a sovereign power recognizes them.