>>58113905I do agree with you. It's just that this current culture issue, like any other before it, needs people to start working towards fixing it for things to settle into a reasonable normal.
It starts with not coddling children and teaching them how to help themselves. If parents are concerned there's an issue it's their responsibility to handle it with their kid, not the world's responsibility to childproof everything for everyone so they can't get into trouble when left unsupervised. Does there need to be safe environments for them to learn and make mistakes in? Absolutely! But the collective sandbox ain't it and trying to make it so hurts everyone - look at the new UK age restriction thing. And parents should have the tools to restrict what their kid can do online just as they decide what their kid can do irl, but they also need to accept that there's points where various safety rails need to come off before they turn 18 or else they'll get there and not know how to make decisions and handle responsibility for themselves.
And there are unfortunately bad actors like you say, but as a society we need to develop better systems than reactionary witch hunts because someone called foul without evidence. Like
>>58114059 said there are consequences for false accusations, but usually by time the truth comes out the damage is already done and people have stopped paying attention or don't change their stance when the correction is issued. The problem only gets worse by sitting around saying it is what it is. If you don't push back then the people who benefit from things going to hell like this get what they want because nobody cared enough to even show up to present their case. Half the protect the children crap is just virtue signaling, they just want control and to look good getting it. People get caught up in one extreme or the other and fail to realize that things are too complex for a big one-size-fits-all solution.
