"We need to be careful about giving children access to the Internet"

[kaberett]

I was a queer teen under section 28. I say I was brought up by the Internet, and what I mean is: the Internet told me that people like me could exist, and exist happily and without judgment, at least some of the time.

And now, after that thoroughly vile FB conversation, I am going to go to Bar Wotever and watch my girlfriend sing cock rock, because I'm an adult now.

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[hairyears]

There's an identifiable cluster of toxic opinions around "The Internet is Evil": authoritarian moralism, an urge to control rather than offer leadership and support, fear of sexuality - homosexuality most of all! - a liking for censorship, and a tendency to use falsehoods to promote the agenda.

A common example of these falsehoods is a tendency to conflate everything the author doesn't like with child abuse. Needless to say, authoritarian moralism and censorship enforce a silence in which all manner of abuse can flourish.