all redditors* should be banned from the internet
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
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For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
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P.S. My takeaway from this is that all minors should be banned from the Internet.
Should minors also be banned from Earth because it isn't a kid-friendly place either?
Don't misinterpret this, Internet safety is definitely important to teach and people being creepy like this is definitely a problem... but at the same time, the Internet also has a lot of useful content and knowledge on it too, and it feels too reactionary to deprive people of that just because of their age (cf. the UK attempting exactly that). If we're going to be banning anyone from the Internet, it should be the creeps who are making it a problem.
If it makes a difference to you, I was a minor with a Reddit account back then, didn't get creeped on, and I'm an adult on Hexbear now.
Ayyy, you know what? Thank you for being patient with me.
Thank you for being the rare productive 
Thank you for taking the time to discuss constructively so that we could all come away learning from it. I really don't like this "protect the children" rhetoric that IMHO dehumanizes kids and teenagers by arguing for removing far too many rights from them, even when it isn't slippery sloped into affecting adults.
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hopefully some of the 14 year olds they were hitting on were also 54 year old men...
I'd like to apologize for reminding everyone that r/drama existed. 
if you'd like good coverage about why current proposals for child internet safety are horrible OP, check out the work of Taylor Lorenz. she's done several stories recently on youtube and written outlets about the privacy implications for everyone.
Kids shouldn't be banned from the internet, the internet should just be unplugged. Turn it off. It was to much
Ban porn.
It’s a complicated situation. We should go back to pagers but then we might start having conversations face to face /:
"teenagers" scare the living shit outta me
gross 
fuck it torture is good actually, let's get started
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