In an effort to ban all Zoomers, r/Drama set up a bot to ban everyone that has ever posted (a healthy amount of comments) on r/Teenagers.
Their ban message simply said “Underage” and they got a lot of responses, mostly from people declaring that they are adults, namely - middled aged people.
They. Got. So. Many responces from people that are way too old to be posting r/Teenagers that they took a look at their post histories.
Here’s a 35 year old man hitting on a 14 year old.
Here’s a 45 year old man talking about “hot tween pussy”
P.S. My takeaway from this is that all minors should be banned from the Internet. It was NEVER a kid-friendly place.
I should not have said that. I should not have said that.
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.