The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth | WSJ

Excellent piece:

The lesson from these examples isn’t that protecting children online is misguided or an unworthy goal. It is that the means proposed to achieve this end pose significant risks to human rights, and that the tools created for that purpose can easily become instruments of broader control over speech once governments acquire them.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/social-media-freedom-speech-meta-youtube-ruling-32aaee3b archived at: https://archive.ph/PMCjL

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  1. Dave Walker

    Considering which “special” rights children are considered to have which adults aren’t, and which rights adults have which children don’t, it’s long struck me that there’s confusion (in the UK, at least) as to whether children are considered human or not.

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