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Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

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693 points macawfish | 5 comments | 12 Jul 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 2.685s | source
1. chriscrisby ◴[13 Jul 25 03:33 UTC] No.44547269[source]▶
Who knew giving kids unlimited porn would have negative consequences.
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2. EasyMark ◴[13 Jul 25 08:02 UTC] No.44548438[source]▶
any kid that has unlimited porn is a kid with poor parents, and they were gonna get into things much worse than porn anyway since parents aren't around and being negligent.
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3. chriscrisby ◴[13 Jul 25 13:43 UTC] No.44550413[source]▶
If you can’t configure content filters and dns servers then what right do you have to be a parent.

You shouldn’t be a parent if you can’t enforce a mobile device policy better than an average Fortune 500 corporation.

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4. Aachen ◴[13 Jul 25 14:51 UTC] No.44550842[source]▶
That's an interesting line you're drawing. I'd not say my parents were negligent or that I'm any worse off for having a computer to myself

I heard later they talked about porn and decided that if I seek it out, I'm probably ready for it and otherwise, if I find it icky (I remember feeling that way as a child), I'll just not go back to it. Looking back, for me at least, I think it really was that simple: some things are icky to me still today and I don't seek them out, but I don't remember ever wishing I hadn't seen something that I had looked up

The second thing is that my mom was concerned about my computer use, but then at some point saw that I also created things (probably HTML pages). She later told me that this was when she decided it could be good for my development to continue down this path and learn more about computers. I now work in IT. I don't think she was wrong

Keeping my computer use supervised just isn't feasible when it's most of my free time (after maybe 13 years old, idk). I don't think these considerations mean my parents were "not around". They were 100% there for me when I needed them and then some. You can call this negligent but that's neither their nor my opinion, more than ten years after leaving their supervision and looking back at it and how others are raising children currently

What seems harmful to me is the helicopter parenting style that movies and online (news) media portray the USA as doing. Idk to what extent that's actually real though, a lot of it seems really far out there

5. Aachen ◴[14 Jul 25 02:17 UTC] No.44555837{3}[source]▶
Just to double check, this is a joke right? Because you suggested upthread (if I'm reading the sarcasm right) that consumption must be curtailed, but clearly this comment about not having a right to be a non-tech-savvy parent is a joke...or?!