| ▲ | yapyap 7 days ago | |
You ate the “save the children” koolaid. Children can also be groomed over text messages, should we let the government read all our text messages now? Children can also be depicted wrong in photos, should we let the governments of the world have access to our photos so they can check for themselves if that is happening or not? (both are hypothetical questions, the answer is no of course not. This is the responsibility of the caretaker in their life to guide them safely through the world.) | ||
| ▲ | 14 7 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
I also remind people that laws change over time and that perfect crime prevention is actually a bad thing. The easiest example one can point to homosexuality. We now accept that people attracted to the same sex. But at one point in time in many places that was illegal. The last person in Canada to go to jail for being gay was in 1965, charged with gross indecency. But times and morals change so imagine if we had perfect police and everyone had to wear a camera at all times and every single thing you did was monitored and reported back to the police. No gays, no abortions, no alcohol, no speaking against governments or police, so many ways we would be oppressed. I am not saying people who harm children should free to break the law but the solution can not be to monitor everything every person does. The solution for me would be to teach people how to better set parental controls for their kids and to educate both parents and kids about dangers and online safety. | ||
| ▲ | nickslaughter02 7 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Both are included in EU's chat control proposal. Reading text because "grooming" and searching of storage. | ||