I agree with your final sentence applied to any corporate-owned website operating for profit, as long as you remove the word “developing”.

The solution isn’t to ban kids, it’s to ban the toxic sites, practices, and incentive structures.

I’m also talking about 15-20 years ago.

The influences I had were furries (queers), science/scifi nerds, academics, service members of the military who were otherwise separated from community, etc. The internet brought us together.

It was that or rural Florida where if you went outside and got stabbed by one of those poison palm you’d just get told that those have to be there because they kept the slaves from escaping the circus in the good old days.

What you’re talking about with kids today is what I mean about them being canaries.

I disagree with this point.

I used the internet extensively as a minor to socialize and find friends and to be exposed to viewpoints different from those of my peers. If I only had my peers to socialize with, things would have been much worse off for me. I found kind and supportive influences as a minor that kept me away from the hate/conservatism/fascism that many of my classmates descended into. I learned about the world and gained skills that made me a more well-rounded person. I even met up in person with thousands of strangers and had a grand time.

I see the gatekeeping of minors from internet spaces and worry about the impact that would have had on me and my development as a young person. If I hadn’t been welcomed as a minor online, I would not have been welcomed anywhere.

That said, I stayed the hell away from corporate spyware like facebook and twitter that only serve to reinforce existing problematic systems, expose people to the toxic IRL social environments that they may otherwise be trying to escape, and amplify the kind of hatred and bigotry that I personally was evading.

I miss the old internet where kids were safe. I don’t think that the solution is to ban kids; the solution is to ban platforms and profiteering incentive structures that create unsafe environments. The kids are the canaries in a coal mine. If the canary isn’t doing well, you don’t just ban it and keep digging: you get the hell out and find somewhere else to be.

Sharing data with the plebs is the true crime.

This article’s preamble cites this news story as the motivation for writing the rebuttal presented.

Literally the news story that this author cites as motivation for writing this article in the preamble to the article.

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The first budget they have control over is FY26.

Common folks don’t own very much of the stock market.

Three Wall Street firms control the majority share of 95% of S&P500 companies

I remember it being good after the reboot for a few years… then I got to college and kind of just stopped watching TV.

What they said was in the context of the OP.

The poll in the OP did.

That’s about when it DID end… Then it got revived.

They gain by preventing copycat killers. If other poors think that he got away with it, they might think they can, too.

That’s not carbs, that’s water weight.

Look at the source again, at the pie chart of “calories by source”. 80% protein, 16% carbs, 4% fat.

I read that there would be genetic markers of a manmade virus, and that this virus’s RNA matched a natural evolution.

Every action leaves some sort of trace.

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Curious to know what you mean here.

What parts of a virus could they find to be racist about?

I disagree that we had a transition from a military… democracy?.. to a venture-capital fuedalism.

Our militarization has only increased since the time you mentioned.

Wealth and capital have run America since they set up the colonies.

The military and the feudal-capitalist lords feed and build off of each other. They are part and parcel of the same oppression.

Autonomous citizenship in a democracy is an idea that America has flirted with but never fully delivered on.