Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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  • Right. Then I’ll just open up your banking history here on lemmy…

    Oh wait.

    And words have meaning. You can’t just point to their etymology and claim they can be used to refer to everything you consider slightly related.

    The fact is, the word panopticon has very specific meaning, and specifically refers to prisons. And you didn’t even get it right. The original concept doesn’t involve constant surveillance, but the possibility of constant surveillance.

    Otherwise every single room with someone wearing sunglasses in it, would be one, because you can’t tell whether that person might be looking at you at any given moment.


  • No. It’s a prison.

    Moderated social media is not a prison. Lemmy does not make your financial history public. It does not make your whatsapp, telegram or signal messages public. It does not point a camera at your physical body for all to view at all times.

    A panopticon is a prison model where surveillance is possible at all times, and nothing is private.

    Moderated social media, is not a prison, and is not mutually exclusive with 100% private conversation outside any given platform, between any two individuals, or within any given group of individuals.

    The reason PUBLIC forums need to be moderated is that otherwise they devolve instead of develop conversation.

    In the private sphere, the equivalent action taken to mediate conversation is the ability for you to simply stop conversing with a given individual, or for a group to ostracize individuals that sabotage discourse.

    Once you reach a group of large enough size, ostracizing no longer works, and you individually blocking someone does not prevent them from derailing topics for everyone else.




  • Why would you not condone it? A 17-year-old, is a “kid” to anyone about a decade older than that, but they also don’t just magically stop being “a kid” on their 18th birthday.

    Most people enjoy sex, and most teenagers have an intense drive to explore it. What’s wrong with that?

    Tell em how to be safe, maybe throw in some guidelines on place and time, and how to not disturb others with it, and let em.

    But why would you not condone it, unless one of or both of the people involved are abusive or being taken advantage of?

    That the adults related to the teenagers, feel it’s icky, has nothing to do with anything.