>Why do people accept being treated like children?
Because some cultures have a religious-inherited "sin-avoidance" problem, and e.g. try to ban alcohol, disney-fy public discussion, lose it if a tit is accidentally shown, and are "shocked" if somebody utters "fuck" in a late night show.
(It doesn't help that many of the "adult" population behave like children and throw a fit if their morality as to the above is "challenged").
Now, put these cultures, for historical reasons, in charge of technology platforms...
All of these, and more, turn into some state duty (in turn imposed on corporations) to handle moderation and control content in behalf of adult audiences (e.g FCC rules, Hayes code, Apple's ban of political, sex, etc apps, and so on).
This leads to the child-ification of the adult population, where the "adults" in charge know better and protect the masses.
some (presumably christian) cultures consider it important to promote a societal standard of morality that encourages self-control as the basis for sustainably safeguarding individual liberty while being (increasingly more) tolerant of aberrant ways of self-expression.
As with every culture, its members defend their way of life and morals.
Put these cultures in control of technology platforms and you will see that they will attempt to strike the right balance between personal freedoms and public responsibility and even failing at that sometimes under pressure from various interests (commercial, the self-interest of spy agencies who want to make their job easier, post-modernist denial of christian cultural norms of morality and personal freedom, far left activism that seeks to dox, cancel, and censor all opposition)*.
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*I'm pointing out some of the overtly anti-christian or worldview agnostic interests at play to highlight the highly oversimplified anti-traditionalist/anti-conservative/anti-christian slant of the parent comment.
Maybe just maybe we can have a nuanced conversation without all the finger pointing and scapegoating, and recognize that there's some legitimacy to each of these values that sometimes conflict with each other and figuring out the right balance is challenging.
Because some cultures have a religious-inherited "sin-avoidance" problem, and e.g. try to ban alcohol, disney-fy public discussion, lose it if a tit is accidentally shown, and are "shocked" if somebody utters "fuck" in a late night show.
(It doesn't help that many of the "adult" population behave like children and throw a fit if their morality as to the above is "challenged").
Now, put these cultures, for historical reasons, in charge of technology platforms...
All of these, and more, turn into some state duty (in turn imposed on corporations) to handle moderation and control content in behalf of adult audiences (e.g FCC rules, Hayes code, Apple's ban of political, sex, etc apps, and so on).
This leads to the child-ification of the adult population, where the "adults" in charge know better and protect the masses.