‘Kids Online Safety Act’ will deliberately target trans content, senator admits.::undefined

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    1 year ago

    Is it protecting children? Claims need evidence and rules need tests. Until we do that its fear-based, exploitable control for the sake of control.

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      Yeah that’s the problem with legislation like this. You’ll have proponents claim it protects children without actually explaining how.

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      No, sometimes we actually need to act before knowing everything. This is sometimes called “leadership”. What we know for a fact currently is that the number of children who think they are trans or non-binary is in a sharp rise in many countries in the west. There are guesses why this is: transactivists like to say that LBTQ+ is now accepted so these people dare to come out. The other side cite e.g. social contagion. Only in the west, somehow. If this is caused by something that is reversible, then that should be probably tried out.