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"It’s never about the children. Supporters of age verification laws, book bans,
drag show bans, and abortion bans always claim they’re doing these things to
protect children. But it’s always just about themselves. They want to impose
their morality on other adults. That’s all there is to it.
Abortion bans are just a way to strip women of bodily autonomy. If it was
really about cherishing children and new lives, these same legislators wouldn’t
be routinely stripping school lunch programs of funding, introducing onerous
means testing to government aid programs, and generally treating children as a
presumptive drain on society.
The same goes for book bans. They claim they want to prevent children from
accessing inappropriate material. But you can only prevent children from
accessing it by removing it entirely from public libraries, which means even
adults will no longer be able to read these books.
The laws targeting drag shows aren’t about children. They’re about punishing
certain people for being the way they are — people whose mere existence seems
to be considered wholly unacceptable by bigots with far too much power.
The slew of age verification laws introduced in recent years are being shot
down by courts almost as swiftly as they’re enacted. And for good reason. Age
verification laws are unconstitutional. And they’re certainly not being enacted
to prevent children from accessing porn.
Of course, none of the people pushing this kind of legislation will ever openly
admit their reasons for doing so. But they will admit it to people they think
are like-minded. All it takes is a tiny bit of subterfuge to tease these
admissions out of activist groups that want to control what content
adults
have access to — something that’s barely hidden by their “for the children”
facade."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
