Taggart 
It was my job for a decade to try to keep tweens and teens safe online. Let me tell you what you already know: no law or technology can do it. There are no lengths kids won't go to to talk to friends without prying eyes. The harder you try to lock it down, the dodgier their solutions will be.
Tatjna@mttaggart I've never worked in online safety but I have decades of experience in drug harm reduction and the headline learning from all that is that banning stuff doesn't stop people from doing it, it just makes it more harmful.
Eggs now in different baskets.@Tatjna @mttaggart And society and social norms suffer as "collateral damage".
Witness the prohibition experiment in the US.
Organised crime never had it so good.
And organised crime bosses, once "elected" can never be voted out of office.
@the_wub Do not get me started on Harry Anslinger and his bullshit. Him and his thinly disguised racist vendettas are responsible for more deaths that we can even count, never mind how much money has been wasted that could have been spent on making the world a better place.
@Tatjna I had to read up about Harry Anslinger. I know the generalities of the prohibition era and the way it strengthened organised crime in the US but not the details of the individuals involved.
It reminds me of how the "Sus" laws were applied unequally in the UK in the 70s and 80s.
You could be stopped by the police on the suspicion that you were up to no good.
That rule got applied to young men of colour far more often than any other group in the UK population.