Apple is unsurprisingly all-in on the nightmarish "parents know best" discourse that's justifying policies cutting off minors from digital spaces all over the world.
⇧
Apple is unsurprisingly all-in on the nightmarish "parents know best" discourse that's justifying policies cutting off minors from digital spaces all over the world.
Niléane
•RE: https://xoxo.zone/@mb/116715645977064739
this
mb
2026-06-08 17:23:42
Niléane
•RE: https://hachyderm.io/@avakining/116715652126950192
and this.
increased digital surveillance and constraints on kids are straight up dangerous.
Ava :transheart:
2026-06-08 17:25:16
Niléane
•RE: https://myke.social/@imyke/116721068646749888
Most of the cis white men commenting Apple's announcements regarding increased parental controls and restrictions on their children's devices are failing to see how dangerous these can be for queer and marginalized kids.
> “It feels like parents today need help to have better tools and guidance to make the right decisions for their children.”
Fuck no. Ask any trans kid whether their parents can make the right decisions for them. It's one thing to want to protect kids (who doesnt?), it's another to provide absolute power to the parents over them like they're their property.
Kids' rights are human rights should not be an empty statement. It should mean fight back against age verification, fight back against their systematic surveillance, fight back against removing kids' rights to digital privacy. And fight back against this insane idea that parents should inherit an almost divine right to polic
... show moreRE: https://myke.social/@imyke/116721068646749888
Most of the cis white men commenting Apple's announcements regarding increased parental controls and restrictions on their children's devices are failing to see how dangerous these can be for queer and marginalized kids.
> “It feels like parents today need help to have better tools and guidance to make the right decisions for their children.”
Fuck no. Ask any trans kid whether their parents can make the right decisions for them. It's one thing to want to protect kids (who doesnt?), it's another to provide absolute power to the parents over them like they're their property.
Kids' rights are human rights should not be an empty statement. It should mean fight back against age verification, fight back against their systematic surveillance, fight back against removing kids' rights to digital privacy. And fight back against this insane idea that parents should inherit an almost divine right to police everything about their children's lives.
Myke Hurley
2026-06-09 16:22:45
Niléane
•RE: https://mastodon.social/@alexcox/116721603859293405
100% this.
“Me and most of my friends might be dead if we had to grow up under this kind of constant parental surveillance“ is a fucking dramatic statement, and yet it's the plain truth. A truth with cascading causes and effects.
Alex Cox
2026-06-09 18:38:52