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Cake day: August 13th, 2025

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  • The guardrails already exist. Put parental controls on your kid’s devices. Done, solved. Block social media sites, monitor what they’re doing online. Don’t go making it mandatory for everyone to give social media companies more information than they already have.

    A better comparison would be “let’s put a government mandated ID scanner on everyone’s liquor cabinet so that their kids can’t access it! Oh you don’t have kids? Too bad, still need that ID scanner!”

    Maybe the focus should be on a free (government funded, ideally FOSS) parental controls software suite that makes blocking social media on all major platforms (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux) simple and easy. Promote it to parents, and get them to parent, instead of deanonymizing the internet for everyone.






  • Trans woman here. If you’re close with me, and I bring up something about my transition, then acknowledging that and the “that’s awesome” part you’re talking about is good.

    If you’re simply commenting on my clothes or something, unsolicited, then simply treat me as you would any other woman.

    I’m privileged enough to pass as cis without really doing anything special so this doesn’t come up often, but it’d feel weird, uncomfortable, or condescending, and possibly make me feel unsafe coming from a stranger. Now, if I were out wearing trans pride colors or something like that, then acknowledging that in a positive way would be welcome and cool.

    Also, as others have pointed out, transsexual is a rather dated term and is generally has negative connotations. The correct term is transgender.

    TLDR: Treat us as you would any other person. If you like my outfit or something, and you’d say it to a cis person wearing it then that’s good. If you wouldn’t say it to a cis person, you probably shouldn’t say it to a trans person.