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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Bruh
Why we banning kids now?
What if they have shitty parents and need to go online to vent?
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Fortunately I have good and supportive parents.
That's the whole point, they want to keep children away from support networks to enforce the idea of parents owning their children. People are going to argue otherwise but as a trans person myself I've seen this and you're not fooling anyone with your lame excuses about protecting kids. People especially those who are vulnerable need support networks, do you know how many trans kids kill themselves because they can't get the support they need and live with abusive and controlling parents. Don't tell me it's to protect kids, I'm not stupid enough to buy that lie and you're not stupid enough to think I'd buy it.
Children are not fucking chattel and I'm tired of pretending like they are.
It's weird to confuse responsibility and mentorship with ownership.
It's weird that you consider actions reminiscent of ownership and control, like trying to keep children away from support groups, or preventing a trans kid from expressing themselves in a way that aligns with their gender identity, responsibility or mentorship. You sound so much like a right wing troll right now, and it's not funny or amusing.
What, are you going to say that children don't understand their gender? That they're confused? That all parents care for their kids and should be the only influence in their lives? It's certainly sounds like that's where you're going right now.
This is the fediverse, they can sign up to any instance that will have them.
Lemm.ee allows 16+ users. They signed up on lemm.ee
If sag were to get an alt on let's say Blahaj (not sure they allow underage users, it's just an example), the LW admins would still ban the new account.
So the account on Blahaj would be able to see and interact with any community not hosted on World, World gets to stay compliant with whatever laws it needs to abide by, everybody's happy and there's jam for tea.
That user's posts also wouldn't be visible by all of LW population, so a third of the platform
That's an issue having a more evenly distributed userbase would solve, assuming that multiple, smaller instances wouldn't also feel bound by similar laws. You can't eat your cake and still have it.
Blahaj allow 16+ too.
I wish I had your mind-reading ability. Without that omniscient edge this looks like the weirdest bit of teen O.D.D today.
Am I supposed to feel insulted? I don't care what some right wing troll thinks of me. Whether you like it or not, right wing politicians push for these tactics to take support networks away from vulnerable people who they believe to have ownership of.