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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc,nz.general,aus.computers
Subject: Re: Banning Social Media For Under-16s
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:48:20 +1000
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On Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:03:27 +1000, Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:41:37 +1000, "Rod Speed"
> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>> Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote
>>>>>>> kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote
>>>>>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote
>>>>>>>>> Scott Dorsey wrote
>>
>>>>>>>>>> The only solution is to actually educate kids about sex ...
>>
>>>>>> Not even possible
>>
>>>>>>>>> Some right-wingers have religious objections to that though,  
>>>>>>>>> don't
>>>>>>>>> they?
>>
>>>>>>>> Not just right-wingers.  Plenty of folks left and center have  
>>>>>>>> social
>>>>>>>> objections to that.  (Most of the claimed religious objections on
>>>>>>>> the  right turn out to be social objections when carefully
>>>>>>>> inspected.)
>>
>>>>>>>> We live in a society that is very messed-up about sex and that  
>>>>>>>> isn't
>>>>>>>> going to change until people see places that are less so.  The  
>>>>>>>> nice
>>>>>>>> thing about the internet is that it gives kids an opportunity to  
>>>>>>>> see
>>>>>>>> places that are less so.  The bad thing about the internet is that
>>>>>>>> it  provides no context.
>>
>>>>>>> There has to be some balance between freedom and control.
>>
>>>>>> Bullshit
>>
>>>>> It is not bullshit.
>>
>>>> Its complete and utter bullshit
>>
>>>>> It's common sense.
>>
>>>> Control isnt even possible
>>
>>> Some control is possible.
>>
>> Nope and it never has been

> As with every law 100% is not possible.  But they work most of the  time!

Sex education of children has never worked except in the sense
that it does make clear that fucking can make you pregnant