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Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It (www.techdirt.com)
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Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It::Amidst all of the attention paid to last week’s Senate hearing on child safety online, it remains stunning just how little time was actually spent on how to help children online. Instead, we saw pure theatrical nonsense, with Senators insisting (falsely) that these five tech CEOs could magically stop bad things from happening to kids,…

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think it’s more because both fall into their category of sexual immorality. They consider both to be psychosexual disorders that people develop. And while they do think they’re related they think they’re related in that way, much like how depression and substance abuse disorders are related. And yeah it’s similar in their minds to “rapid onset gender dysphoria” which is actually just parents not noticing that their kid was struggling with dysphoria until they found support that helped them process it and come out