The Internet is inherantly not a safe space for anyone. It’s a world-wide connection of documents, databases, software, logs, audio/video - be it livestreamed or recorded, and images - and people.

People are now a major part of the web created over two decades ago in the late 80s/early 90s.

Sooner or later you’re going to see someone who disagrees with you or does something you dislike.

Does that mean you have a right to be a dick about things willy nilly? No… but I also believe that the beauty of the internet is you can go to anywhere else. Or not go on at all.

And I beleive that the ultimate nanny box or shield from this stuff? Parents. My mom kept tabs on what I did without being overly intrusive. She’d ask me what I was doing, and I’d tell her. She’d make sure I balanced schoolwork with internet stuff. My grandparents did this too when I visited them. when I was 18, my mom and grandparents granted me total autonomy but still asked out of curiousity.

And if I talked about something like sex, they talked to me about it and made sure I was okay and all that… they didn’t filter the internet but they did help offer context to things I may not have understood. That and my school actually had decent sex education (at least in contrast to the standard I’ve seen people talk about).

Parents are there for a reason.

It is not the job of the internet to do more than to try to be reasonable and tag stuff as NSFW - which is considered to be the universal indicator that the content is not safe for work - work being your place of employment, school, or for young kids to young teens. And most porn sites have an overlay or a gate to see if you are 18 or not, and even then that’s not a replacement for solid parenting…

… and if you’re above 18, congrats, you are legally an adult. Act like it. Filter shit like we all do. If I get swamped with shit I don’t wanna see, I use a blacklist - if it gets out of hand I leave this site for a few hours or days… or even just stay off social media. Because, you know, that’s what is reasonable. I can’t expect everyone to conform to mememe!

Stop shifting the blame on content creators and curators.