Online Censorship, Age Verification & Social Media Bans are misconceived, illiberal, mass-harmful little rules that we must teach our teens to circumvent, so they have context, understanding & wherewithal to break big totalitarian ones they’ll eventually encounter. Of course they will need to learn & understand what the rules were trying to achieve as well – to understand intention as well as the failures of implementation – but that’s a given.

Great little video on TikTok, attached:

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Like for instance: if you’re going to ban kids from social media then what are you going to give them to fill the void? Community social clubs? Investment in extra education? Social care? Therapeutic help and access to mentorship? Sports clubs?

Anything?

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You don’t become talented by willing it. You become talented by practicing. The same is true for doing the right thing. If you never push back when the stakes are low, you won’t have the moral muscle when the stakes are high. James C. Scott calls this anarchist calisthenics: regularly breaking the stupid rules so you’re prepared to resist the harmful ones. Small acts of resistance train us for the moments that actually matter. #AnarchistCalisthenics #JamesCScott

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