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Tzimisce Flesh@dcoderlt Eh, kinda? Framing it as a generational conflict is kinda reductive. It's not the adult class as a monolith pushing out kids, it's the corporate/monoculture influence trying to make things profitable to shareholders and palatable to the lowest common denominator.
Also, like, in the case of the internet, a lot of the adults around are the same kids that used it in their youth, seeing for themselves the consequences of this gentrification.
Also also, we've been using internet for porn as soon as we figured out how. So, like, there were always adults on the internet.
Also also also, the desire to push children out of internet spaces (among normal people) is largely a result of the monopolies controlling said spaces being unwilling to accommodate spaces for them, making their platforms a half-sanitised mess that can neither be safely enjoyed by children or freely used by adults.
Also also also also, a lot of the actual political pressure to push kids out of the internet spaces is from interest groups trying to strengthen state and corporate power rather than actually helping adults or kids.
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