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nickyflowers posts:

it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they’re in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like “unalive” and “seggs” because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they’re easier to market to

nickyflowers replies:
oh im sorry you’re a trans adult? super ban. you are super banned for life. you have upset Visa’s feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. how could you do this to Google Ads?

  • nycki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Nicky Flowers is a treasure. Did you know they’re on episode 5 now of their zine, Very Little News? https://verylittlenews.org/

    (I’m not related, my name is spelled completely differently as you can see)

  • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    I wish we’d protect young impressionable children more. From hateful content and the alt-right pipeline.

  • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    At one time, it was the responsibility of parents to supervise their kids online and prevent them from accessing anything they weren’t ready to see. I wish we could go back to that.

    • taxiiiii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Lol, go back to what exactly? I remember the overwhelming majority of parents had literally zero clue how to deal with the internet when it first became a thing. Children went online and saw all kinds of traumatizing shit.

      I mean, at least people warned you to never post your name, age or pictures online.

      The status quo sucks, but going back doesn’t sound great either.

  • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    because all the world’s money is held by a global cabal of Christian fascists who invented blood libel to project their evil onto scapegoats. They’re a bunch of groomers who rely on brainwashing the youths they make miserable through their garbage economic system. their antiwoke mind virus is sexy to people unwilling to question their own biases, so us queers end up strung up for trying to exist at all. they then convince themselves that their strategy is what’s best for “society” when they’re the very degenerate threats to all life on earth that they fear monger about. the unironic response to all their bullshit is “I know you are, but what am I?”

  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    42·
    2 days ago

    I remember reading something about something like this where someone basically gave a counter to this rhetoric of “the internet is basically a city, would you let your child walk unattended through a city? Then why should I have to self censure my site to that standard”

    It led to this crazy debate about how a city should be so safe and saccharine that a child can walk around unattended. Weird

    • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
      15·
      1 day ago

      Children regularly walk around unattended in Sweden, and they all cus constantly as well. You hear scary evil songs like WAP playing wherever because nobody gives a shit. I think the reason they’re safe is a mix of healthcare access and other welfare programs, weapon control, and sexual education.

      I think the worst thing for kids here right now is nicotine addiction because disposable vapes are very popular with teens. And, you know, also the fact that the far right is eroding their rights and defunding said social programs.

      • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        I mean that’s how it was for me in America in 1998. Walking around and cursing and talking about sex all the time and listening to korn and eventually like slipknot and shit. Skating and hanging out at whoever had a n64 (or eventually sega Dreamcast) and parents that didn’t stay at home

        Then the Walmarts came and put mainstreets out of business, they developed housing in big tracts away from anything so you need to drive 20 minutes to get anywhere and legally aren’t allowed to build any kind of business near a house inside of it, and the far right thing happened here too (kind of seeing the end game right now).

    • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      34·
      2 days ago

      It led to this crazy debate about how a city should be so safe and saccharine that a child can walk around unattended. Weird

      (Emphasis mine)

      TBH, I think this is a very American and kinda conservative take. In most places outside the US and Canada kids walk to school and other places by themselves in urban areas.

      Now, I don’t think that means you shouldn’t be able to buy a dildo or whatever, but I don’t agree with the idea that suburbs or small towns are inherently more safe and wholesome. That’s literally just conservative propaganda.

      But, if there are public spaces that are actually physically unsafe for a child to be in, that’s a failure of society IMO. For the same reason that its a failure if a woman, or a trans person, or a neurodivergent person is put into danger just for existing in the wrong place. People under the age of 18 are human beings too, just ones with different needs from adults, and like all human beings they deserve to be able to exist in public without fearing for their life.

      • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
        26·
        2 days ago

        I think this is one of the very few conservative points thay we should not simply disregard offhand.
        I don’t have all the data and have not done a thorough investigation but looking at crime rates from City-Data and USAFacts cities seem to be higher on average.

        Now, could this be due to larger police forces and higher reporting? Could it be due to the inherent racism our legal system is based upon?
        I’m not the one to say.
        Also there is always going to be variation in the data for many factors.

          • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
            12·
            2 days ago

            In your own link:

            Which means there’s a growing gap between New York City and most of the rest of urban America.

            You’re comparing an outlier.

            On top of this, the graph from your own link says large meteopolotan areas have more murder than rural areas. Did you go to your own link?

            • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              7·
              2 days ago

              And remember, these are statistics for New York […] I used the word “inherently” above for a reason.

              Did you read my comment?

              These articles reference New York specifically because it was considered to be so notoriously dangerous in the 80 and 90s. It hasn’t gotton any less urban since then so what else has changed? And I bring up cities that are even safer despite having a comparable or higher population.

              Again, I use the word “inherently” for a reason. I do not think that it is impossible for a city to be bad, you can fuck up a city like you can any community. But I don’t think there’s anything about urban areas that makes the people there violent just as I don’t think there’s anything about rural areas that makes the people virtuous. It mostly has to do with how many people are poor and desperate enough to turn to crime and miserable enough to turn to hard drugs.

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      At some point, people need to realize that children won’t become serial muderers just because they saw a boob.

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Is the insinuation that Visa, Mastercard, and Google Ads are responsible for banning trans adults a reference to the big nsfw censorship push Tumblr did?