cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/lemmyshitpost/p/1267336/the-uk-government-has-announced-mandatory-eye-covers-for-teens-under-17-aiming-to-protec
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1267334/the-uk-government-has-announced-mandatory-eye-covers-for-teens-under-17-aiming-to-protec
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Satire
Inspired by UK banning teenagers from social media, asking them for their ID to browse the internet and forbidding them from drinking energy drinks.
this is bad satire in the sense that it’s buying the idea that this has anything to do with protecting children. even if we square off the whole mandatory iD for everybody who uses the internet bit and just focus on the children, this is absolutely the UK yet again leading the fight against distain for the youth because they’re young. they oughta play in the streets like I did when I came back from campaign market garden in 1965 at which point I want the police to beat them up for impeding car traffic