yeah i guess
What I said in fact neither pertains to you nor Dexter.
Xena, I am not going to deign to answer you anymore
Be well
Xena stated: source post
srsly?
I thought you were smarter than that.
You just quoted Chapo saying he's a Dexter fan.
Why would you quote him if you don't know wth he's talking about? lol
medbedhead stated: source post
WALTZ: Would you please prove to
Chapo that I am not you.
At this point I am tired of hearing his false claims. You're a good guy (most of the time) but I think you like to exploit the fact that he thinks everyone is Med.
Chapo stated: source post
I honestly think talking about banning waltz/med and all her shitty puppets is a better use of time. I know my opinion is biased, BUT I'D DEFINITELY RATHER HAVE DEXTER HERE.
So would I.
So your comment (bc you quoted Chapo saying so) does pertain to me (another Dexter fan.)
i see no pedos here just some immature fuckin about.
it's not our responsibility to take care of anyone here. who cares about tpg's life lol
the spamming and shitposting is annoying though so either a ban for the shitposters or turncoat cleaning up the forum more often sounds good to me. HINT: i mean the threads with just the op's posts and shit content turncoat lol what the fuck are we paying you for
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I'm able to see the whole "Cyber Bullying" thing as sensationalism.
So you can't see how trolling and harassing online can affect and get to a kid? Hell it gets to older people here. Kids have limited experience with social interaction. Being exposed to shitty behavior online can deform their perception of it, by either making them prejudiced/insecure or by copying/mimicking the behavior. Also, to children the smallest things that we dismiss seem important enough to have a mental impact on them. Children who spend time making YT videos will have a shitload of troll and hate to deal with, and some can feel impacted by it.
Edvard stated: source post
:D yeah that kid was fucking funny. I especially looked for the 300 violin orchestra remix.
Looks like you really care about this growing epidemic. 
What you just described can happen to them by going through real life too, and with how much social interaction involves the internet there's likely to be video uploads whether it's done socially or asocially. The further down in age that you look, the more that socializing is no longer separated from the internet.
I honestly don't think it's my business what other kids do on the computer, and I still don't see Cyber Bullying as this huge thing. It's not like people on the internet can punch each other yet, and internet insults are not too bad of a learning curve for learning to tolerate being insulted. If they feel like victims from what's said to them over the computer, imagine how they'd respond to it in real life.
All I am saying is that the parents/caretakers have to keep an eye on wtf the child is doing online and if it affects the child.
While I do agree somewhat, I think a certain amount of freedom should be allowed. I'd vie for secret surveillance at most if the kid warrants it.
When I was growing up, my folks set up a rapport where they'd keep an eye on what I was doing and would have conversations with me about it after the fact to see where I am mentally, but otherwise didn't police my activity beyond expressing the occasional concern. With how they went about it it opened up the means for communication, and from that they knew about the majority of my media-based behavior. It began with television, but it moved onto the internet once I grew interested in that. This helped me develop conversational stamina, got me used to giving critiques and analysis, granted me a feeling of freedom that I didn't want to destroy, and forged the way for communication with them that's still mostly present to this day. What started as concern soon became peer comparison of the same media, and soon after they found themselves interested in stuff that I like.
The media itself poses dangers, sure, but it strongly depends on the kid and the parenting styles in question. Seeing it as one giant blanket statement of inevitable danger is a bit overzealous when the internet is also one hell of a learning tool.
I'd bother with making obstacles, but if a kid really wants to get to it, they'll find a way.What age do you consider appropriate for being able to watch porn?
Obstacles and supervision are all you can do as with drugs and anything else of this sort. I don't have a specific age in mind. I guess it depends on how mature/able to ration it I perceive the kid to be, and take action if things get out of control. Definitely nothing until they hit puberty.
Agreed. My folks let me start a bit earlier than puberty from trusting my maturity at the time, but they definitely kept a light eye on me until they figured that they could trust me.
I happen to believe internet porn is really bad for men of all ages especially, and this is why: http://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/porn-debate.
I personally think porn's main unhealth concern is how it can tweak with their expectations for future partners, but anything with erotic themes will have this risk. Beyond that, masturbation is healthy, they won't get STDs or get anyone pregnant with it, and it helps for trivializing sex as a whole instead of it naively seeming like this shocking mysterious thing. While for men it can condition the penis to get off faster (but also recover faster), for women it can help them become more in touch with their bodies, something that's helpful when so much of sex is mental.
I don't really see online communities and fandom as a bad thing.
They're not as long as they're a hobby and not a limiting obsession.
What if the person makes some sort of life out of it? Fandom could be the inspiration for their own future art, and online communities could be what gives them the room to become writers, diplomats, lawyers, or the like later on.
I'd say it varies from person to person, but I also think I have no room to judge it across the board when there's so many different ways for people to respond to it from within. There will always be the people who "use it wrong", but they'd likely use other resources similarly if they weren't confronted with these ones.
If they were just as likely to fuck up in the outside world, then the internet isn't the problem.
I never said the internet was a problem. I said parents not keeping an eye on where the kid surfs online is as dangerous as parents not keeping an eye on the kid outside. Interaction outside and bad habits a kid picks up outside can be more obvious to parents, with witnesses and concrete evidence of something going on.
As a general statement, I agree, as keeping an eye can potentially help the situation even if it's from another source entirely, like books, sketches, or their imaginations, but "more obvious" doesn't mean the problems aren't still there. Parents if they really care about it can actually keep better surveillance on kids who browse the internet than those who go outside of their supervision. A computer savvy enough person can have their screen show what their kids screen is showing without the kid having any knowledge of it if they're that brand of worrywart. Even in the early 00's I had a friend who couldn't even delete his search history without his father being able to re-dig it up and scold him over it (so naturally he used my internet or the school's, but still).
What do you think TPG is picking up from here that's maladaptive, and are you saying that TPG has bad parents (at least when it comes to being inattentive)? At what point does it stop being concern and start becoming Think Policing?
Many think the kid is safe in his/her room so nothing bad can happen, while the kid can damage his/her development through anything from unhealthy sexual habits (with the kid finding out that he can't get excited unless his gf is a tranny shoving a 2l coca cola bottle up his ass),
You'd rather they not know about the only thing that turns them on?
...wait, how old is the "kid" in this scenario? That's kind of an important detail.
to being radicalized into islam and running away from home in Syria.
Some might argue that this is a good thing... 
What, you judging TPG for not playing sports now?..Seriously? That's what you got from it?
Oh come on, it was asking for it.
Does he want one?Do teenagers want what's best for them?
Are you saying you know what's best for TPG?
Turncoat stated: source post
Obstacles and supervision are all you can do as with drugs and anything else of this sort. I don't have a specific age in mind. I guess it depends on how mature/able to ration it I perceive the kid to be, and take action if things get out of control. Definitely nothing until they hit puberty.
Agreed. My folks let me start a bit earlier than puberty from trusting my maturity at the time, but they definitely kept a light eye on me until they figured that they could trust me.
Is parental control over their kids' porn consumption a normal thing?
Virus stated: source post
Well... being as the 7 year old is ASD1... whoa... that would be very weird... and not practical for the discussion...
The 9 year old on the other hand... can you elaborate the depth of this situation? We have routines and rules in this house... and I am rather protective as to what they view online... perhaps we envision my son at 15... would I be so cavalier?
Now you are the stickler for details...lol..cute...just to clear this one for me, Atrial Septal defect 1 ? ...or what?
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The depth of the SC drama kicked up with TPG (15 yrs old ) and Jim Savage (40+ yrs )
Both are guilty of breaking a rule.( not that I usually give a shit , but in this case....take a closer look as I am NOT a fking pedophile nor blind to the bleeding obvious
#1. Age ( if TPG is under 18 )
#2. Jim for wasting air. ( sexual discussions with underage kids)
Despite the apparent simplicity and ease of the targets, due to their stupidity of providing copious amounts of evidence, there is more at play than meets the eye. Subtle remain the lines of influence and those that are on the lines are blind to them and the double dupe. Which if you are fine with that, is your own idiocy, and your call....but you may not be...when you see it for yourself.
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Obstacles and supervision are all you can do as with drugs and anything else of this sort. I don't have a specific age in mind. I guess it depends on how mature/able to ration it I perceive the kid to be, and take action if things get out of control. Definitely nothing until they hit puberty.
Agreed. My folks let me start a bit earlier than puberty from trusting my maturity at the time, but they definitely kept a light eye on me until they figured that they could trust me.
Is parental control over their kids' porn consumption a normal thing?
I meant free use of the internet, but nice catch.