Telling your kid to go outside or read a book or play some gameboy instead of browsing the internet unsupervised isn’t “locking them in like a prison”.
This is where the metaphor of "there's a lion outside" breaks down. Also,
it’s still a pretty shitty childhood that you spent all your time staring at a screen in a dark room— I mean, playing in a dark lion’s den.
how the fuck is staring at a (gameboy) screen in worse than staring at a (computer) screen in a dark room? You're still theoretically rotting behind a screen getting eye strain. Though I have to remind people, when our generation (assuming everyone here is a millennial) were kids, our computers weren't RGB gamer setups in goon caves, they were family-used computers in common areas that looked like this:
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My childhood included playing on the computer and going online, but it also included reading books, drawing, coloring, going outside, watching TV, and other normal child activities. You're creating this story where any child that uses any part of the Internet ever at all is some 24-hour-a-day junkie glued to a screen in a dark forgotten corner whose parents don't remember they exist, watching hardcore elsagate porn. Parenting both in our and in the coming generations is going to involve the Internet in some shape or form, and it isn't unreasonable to want the sites that kids access to be relatively cleaned up for their benefit.
certainly not a site called “Disrupt the status quo dot com”, kids need status quo.
also you're being retarded about the name "deviantart." You're literally focusing so hard on something two different people have already explained to you. and holy shit, "kids need status quo," YEAH, for their parents not divorcing or not moving schools 50 times a year! "Oh no, someone modded an emoticon to animate instead of being static, my kids are going to be totally fucked in the head for eternity!" Get some perspective, holy shit.
Just keeping kids off the Internet isn't a solution. You're sitting here saying that since there are any perverts, since there are lions, we should just let them have the whole damn Internet and run away. That's like getting one lion in the neighborhood and locking your kid inside forever. That doesn't fix the problem that there is a LION in a SUBURB that shouldn't BE THERE. The actual answer is to kick them out and keep kicking them out so you can maintain a space that people can live in. Whether it's a literal lion eating people or a pedophile trying to convince your kid that inflation is cool, fact remains; you cannot just remove yourself from society in response to all of its problems. That is a depressed-ass quitter unabomber type answer and that's not valid. You have to actually deal with issues or they will only fester and get worse until you don't HAVE the privilege of avoiding them anymore.
As far as DeviantArt specifically goes, this is what happens when that mindset stays so long that the problem becomes untenable. They let the lions come into the neighborhood, they didn't throw them out, the lions bred and bred and now they run the neighborhood. You moved away because that made it safe for your family, but now that the lions have taken over, they're spreading out into your new neighborhood. Are you going to just keep moving every couple years to avoid the lions or are you gonna actually face the problem? How's that for a metaphor?
