Parents of trans kids urge Senate to oppose online safety bill that could harm LGBTQ+ youth.::More than 100 parents signed an open letter asking lawmakers to support alternatives to the Kids Online Safety Act.
Why is google plus on the keyboard?
But the whole point is to harm LGBTQ+ youth. That’s it, that’s the whole point of this bill. It’s not like they don’t know that.
The goal is to force them to acknowledge it. There are a lot of “think of the children” types who may be more focused on the non lgbt portions of it
people LOVE getting austere and disciplinarian with kids [very very broadly defined as 0-17] and the internet. no one in government knows what it was like growing up online.
i think in general, people seek out what they want to see when they’re ready to see it. being artificially restricted:
a) does not work. anyone worth their salt knows how to get around blocks
and
b) causes more harm than good. give people the basic respect of being able to access information freely. people with a shitty household would be at even more of a disadvantage, not being able to escape online and find like-minded communities. [of course that’s a pro to the ghouls pushing this]
people with a shitty household
These bill almost always exist to and do make everything worse for such kids/folks (kids are folks too!)
Edit: and some folks are fucks
Maybe your school year has five classrooms of 20 students each.
Of those 100 students, maybe one will be transgender. One or two will be nonbinary or genderqueer. Two of the boys will grow up to be gay men. One or two of the girls will grow up to be lesbian women. Four boys and six girls will be bisexual; several other boys and girls will have meaningful same-sex encounters but end up straight anyway.
About one-fifth of those hundred kids will be some kind of LGBTQ+, and many of the rest will be friends of the ones who are.
All of those kids stand to be harmed by anti-LGBTQ+ hate.
Ehh, what do parents know? /s
