Purge ERP from this game!

[Theodric]

How about parents engage a bit with what their kids do on the internet? Talk about what kind of interaction their kids have, what they find fun, what they find uncomfortable. It cannot be on random strangers on the internet to raise your child for you. Of course random strangers should still kick them out if they find out.

It isn't possible for parents to be there 24/7 and personal responsibility does not suddenly go out the window just because someone would rather engage in erotic roleplay with strangers instead of taking the time to figure out if they're actually consenting adults or not.

I think a lot of people in this game's community will be in for quite the shock in the coming years if the internet and their activities throughout it become more tightly controlled, tracked and tied to some sort of 'social credit' system.

Something which may or may not happen though is certainly dangled as a possibility by those who desire it - and I guarantee that the creepy behaviour in online games/chat rooms will be exactly what is exploited to encourage the masses to go along with such systems.

[Saraide]

It isn't possible for parents to be there 24/7 and personal responsibility does not suddenly go out the window just because someone would rather engage in erotic roleplay with strangers instead of taking the time to figure out if they're actually consenting adults or not.

I think a lot of people in this game's community will be in for quite the shock in the coming years if the internet and their activities throughout it become more tightly controlled, tracked and tied to some sort of 'social credit' system.

Something which may or may not happen though is certainly dangled as a possibility by those who desire it - and I guarantee that the creepy behaviour in online games/chat rooms will be exactly what is exploited to encourage the masses to go along with such systems.

I never demanded parents to be behind their kids 24/7. They just occasionally need to talk to their kids about what they are doing online and if your kid is lying to you there then you have fucked up much earlier in raising your child.

[GrizzlyTank]

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So because a parent don't want to parent everyone else needs to be punished.

[Theodric]

So because a parent don't want to parent everyone else needs to be punished.

I wouldn't consider 'missing out on the ability to approach people online for glorified cyber' to be a punishment, personally.

[GrizzlyTank]

I wouldn't consider 'missing out on the ability to approach people online for glorified cyber' to be a punishment, personally.

Because it never stops at just "missing out on the ability to approach people online for glorified cyber". There is always something else that need censored/removed to "protect the children".

The reality is that his has nothing to do with protecting children. Children are merely used as a bludgeon to exert ones authoritarian morals.

Want to protect children? Treat them with respect. Treat them as individuals and educate them about their own existence as humans. About how to act on the internet, to stay anonymous and steer away from questionable interactions.