So many bad, bad laws get passed "For the chiiiiildren!!!1!!!" that it isn't even funny.
Sure, if you shut up all the adults until they can say nothing except boring, kid appropriate, by the most restricted definition, blandness, you can protect the little sheltered darlings from the big bad world. But there are a lot of valuable ideas that get thrown out with the bathwater.
Whenever I see laws about content, in whatever form, that are to "protect the children" I get extremely skeptical. So many parents and child "advocacy" groups are extremely anti-anything that is not cis, het, Christian, conservative blandness (except for their own brands of hate, but that's a different issue.) They want to dumb down the world to ideas suited to sheltered toddlers, and to hell with the rest of us.
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Sure, if you shut up all the adults until they can say nothing except boring, kid appropriate, by the most restricted definition, blandness, you can protect the little sheltered darlings from the big bad world. But there are a lot of valuable ideas that get thrown out with the bathwater.
Whenever I see laws about content, in whatever form, that are to "protect the children" I get extremely skeptical. So many parents and child "advocacy" groups are extremely anti-anything that is not cis, het, Christian, conservative blandness (except for their own brands of hate, but that's a different issue.) They want to dumb down the world to ideas suited to sheltered toddlers, and to hell with the rest of us.