Post by @ahltorp@mastodon.nu

2026-09-18 13:25 UTC

@romli@social.vivaldi.net @ibboard@hachyderm.io @markwyner@mas.to But you wrote "We don't generally accept that children are free to go outside alone". Children. In general. All children. You not only state this as fact, but something that should also continue to be the case. And I'm saying that this is the problem. Who is talking about 4-5 year olds? That is a total strawman. No one has suggested that 4-5 year olds should be on discussion forums.

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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu 2026-09-18 13:27

@romli@social.vivaldi.net @ibboard@hachyderm.io @markwyner@mas.to But thank you for so clearly expressing the problem here, even if you don't think it's a problem.

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@romli@social.vivaldi.net 2026-09-18 13:52

@ahltorp@mastodon.nu @ibboard@hachyderm.io @markwyner@mas.to 'Generally' in my sentence was used to qualify the verb 'accept', not the noun 'children'. As in we do not have a blanket acceptance that any child of any age should have the same freedom as an adult. I am talking about 4-5 year olds in the context of being outside in physical space, as you brought that analogy up. Obviously the appropriate age for a child to wander around the streets on their own is different from the age someone should be free to wander around online.

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