Submission statement: revealing my liberal bias here, but this nanny state nonsense is just going to make life worse for kids and allow parents to abdicate even more responsibility in raising them.
Posted by cdstephens
Submission statement: revealing my liberal bias here, but this nanny state nonsense is just going to make life worse for kids and allow parents to abdicate even more responsibility in raising them.
Posted by cdstephens
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On the one hand I think nanny state is bad and it’s a government out of ideas throwing shit at the wall, on the other hand I think social media is rotting society.
I think I support it even if it’s for the wrong reasons and goes against my principles just because I see social media as such a fundamental problem.
I’m just gonna repost what I said in another thread lol
I hope every “child protection” advocate who cheered this on can never look themselves in the mirror again.
> Being able to talk to other people in my situation as a teenager on social media helped me realise I was transgender and accept myself. My internet friends have helped me through a lot of tough times in my life.
> So *I* would have been hurt had this been in place during, say, covid, when my mental health was spiralling and my online friends were the only thing keeping me tethered to the ground. And there’s going to be a lot of people who are going to be hurt. No ifs, no buts.
> Thankfully this wasn’t *my* situation, but for a lot of people in abusive, controlling households, social media is their one escape — and, indeed, sometimes the only way they find out that what’s happening to them *is* abuse. This ban isn’t going to “protect children”. It’s going to hurt them, and make them [less aware of the world around them](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/19/australias-social-media-ban-preventing-teens-from-accessing-the-news-research-finds).
> [LGBT kids](https://www.libdemvoice.org/why-banning-social-media-for-under16s-would-harm-queer-young-people-79068.html) and [disabled kids](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/07/im-15-years-old-and-have-a-disability-social-media-has-been-a-lifeline-why-is-the-government-kicking-me-off) in particular are going to be ripped away from their support networks — and, in a lot of cases, the only place where they can truly express themselves.
Lowkey hate this wave of internet regulation under the guise of child protection. Having to provide an ID to use social media is weird.
> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
> — C. S. Lewis
What’s their plan for when these people grow up and vote for the party that didn’t impose stifling nanny state rules on them?
15 year-olds have to use youtube kids L L L
It’s obvious that social media is harmful to children, but banning children from them seems like perhaps the sledgehammer approach.
It seems similar to someone noticing that children were dying in car accidents in higher numbers, and banning them from cars outright, rather than mandating seatbelts, or child seats, crumple zones, etc.