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My experience is the edge case that people like you try to pretend either doesn't exist or doesn't matter when justifying the current system.





FWIW, the most egregious issues you’ve mentioned about your upbringing are physical and mental abuse and there are already mechanisms for the state to intervene in those cases and nobody in this thread is arguing against those. Now it so happens that your abusers also limited your access to information, but it’s not actually clear there’s anything wrong with that, which is why we’re arguing about it, but it’s certainly the case that the fact that you were physically and mentally abused as a kid is orthogonal to whether or not the state should intervene in matters of mere access to information.

Parallel really, not orthogonal. It's better that I cut off your internet than hit you with a hammer, but not much better.

Is cutting off a teen’s internet bad if they’re being bullied or groomed on social media?

Do you think if a teen is being bullied, cutting them off from the Internet will help?



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