a ☐ peg in a 〇 hole

I love being an adult who always puts my hand out to shake when I meet a kid! every single time their face is like "no one does The Adult Greeting Ritual with me, is this a sign of respect or is this man simply unhinged" and then of course as we talk they realise it's both

if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks

yes yes biometric data privacy blah blah adults can hypothetically by harmed by this too. what about the immediate and deliberate and not at all hypothetical harm to youth. why are you acting like a potential data leak about what your face looks like, which if it ever happened would at least be generally recognised as a problem, is a more serious issue than cutting millions of people off from information and community and public expression which is happening right now in the open with large scale support

it's got the stench of fucking "banned books week" on it. thousands of adults congratulating themselves for reading books literally no one is trying to stop them from reading while doing nothing to improve access for the young people who are the ones actually having those books made off-limits to them.

If door ID checks, and other safety guide rails are functioning, then yes I think the kids could be at the club. My uncle took me to a club that allowed kids a few times when I was young and it was a lark. I drank soda, danced, marveled at the fog and lasers. Literally it was fine.

oh well of course, if the technologies and social spaces are destroying children's brains and encouraging bad behaviour, we should definitely worry about that because it's clearly true since the same things were never said about malls and skate parks and arcades and video games and TV and movies and raves and dance clubs and bicycles and novels and

I'm all for children's rights except if children do things I don't like and the morning news said it was because of SnapTok

you gotta read, you gotta write, you gotta draw, you gotta watch films and shows. there is literally NO time to be employed

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