The Ethics Of Teenage Political Opinions

Apparently so. No tweets, quotes, Facebook posts, memes or anecdotes by or about anyone under the age of 18.

Even if this site has no apparent mechanism of keeping under age users out, outside of the standard law of being at least thirteen.

In one thread we have 15 year old sex slaves being cool and in another we have 15 year olds talking in the Internet outrageous and beyond the pale.

This place needs some schizophrenia treatment.

We have taken zero steps to keep the content of this site out of view of ten year olds but we are going to flip because tweets by a 15 year old were shared? It would be different if people were attacking or abusing her but there was not and has not been a shred of that.

I guess it depends if you think people should do their dirty washing in public where it’s none of anyone’s business or keep some of the more awful private stuff within the circle of trusted family/friends. I’m not advocating her keeping quiet about it or pretending it’s not happening and she absolutely should be having conversations with friends about it.

Ranting on twitter seems a bad way of venting for her, when she may become a feeding frenzy for the media and a million little sites like this.

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Maybe I’m misunderstanding the comment but these aren’t hidden tweets, she has almost 100k followers on twitter and all her social media profiles are public

No good can come of this IMO.

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And what bad comes out of it being posted on here?

I think maybe it’s me who’s misunderstanding. The pic of the initial tweet was under a banner that said “hidden replies”, but I think it was actually hidden by her dad.

It still all feels a bit gossip mag.

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Nothing at all will come of this outside of whether or not Clovis posts here.

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My personal entertainment is good.

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Nobody said or implied even the most minor insult about it. Honestly it all would have blown over very quickly if not for the outrage. Nobody was harping on it or calling to make her a bot. It was a tweet of relevance and minor interest, like hundreds of others each day.

Since the outrage the inspection of her timeline has blown up exponentially. She was not in need of defense nor protection. Nobody was responding disrespectfully in any way.

In fact when many first saw her tweets they had no idea how old she was. I know I came across an article about her tweets before I ever saw them here. When I learned her age I did not feel like I needed to poor acid into my eyes.

I follow a huge number of people on twitter and from them I see a massive number of retweets of others I do not know. Undoubtedly I see many tweets every day from people under eighteen.

Reading Twitter does not have the same rules as looking for porn.

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This is the exact attitude I’m questioning. This is how me and my friends were raised, and I am very far from convinced that it was the best approach.

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Yeah it was hidden by her dad. And sure it’s gossip mag stuff but not everything posted on here is supposed to be so serious and it’s not like this stuff is being constantly posted. There have been multiple jokes (along the lines of wonder how their dinners are) made about the disfunction of the Conway family based on opposing view points that the parents have posted in public but it’s all in good light hearted fun

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I thought you said you/they bottled it up instead of talking to friends? I;m saying she absolutely should be talking to friends.

Probably nothing but I’m old enough to remember that time I was a moderator when there was a thread about those maga kids who got into that argument with that Native American drummer and how we got a cease and desist communication and a threat to sue. Nothing good comes of posting about a minor.

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Lol

If this were 2004 she’d be eligible for the gas chamber but it’s 2020 so she doesn’t get to publicly talk shit about her parents? I don’t know why we’re yelling right now. Well, why one person is yelling, I guess.

Maybe she has? She does a lot of her anti trump tik toks with a friend.

But I don’t think we should decide for others what personal business of their own they can share online

Wait, what? I got threatened to be doxxed and cuse also. Never heard about that. Any adult can send cease and desists too or was the letter about them being minors?

No one can decide that for her - that choice is clearly hers. Her posting in public about the breakdown of her parents marriage doesn’t oblige us to talk about it (yes, I know weve done little else but clovis’s thread is important to us, clearly).

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Anyone posting in this thread because Clovis doesn’t want us to? Can you say “Streisand effect”?

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There was not that kind of in depth discussion going on. It was a quick aside that EVERYONE quickly moved past except for one or two people.

People want to keep screaming they are being maligned or portrayed inappropriately I want the reality of what happened to be clear.

There was no big derail about her when the tweets were posted. That did not happen until the pearl clutching began. We may have never seen another tweet from her or perhaps just for relevant flavor on occasion.

Instead it had to become a big production and how everyone is morally inferior to one person who clearly lives above and beyond everyone else here and we all should be ashamed for daring to even read a retweet from a 15 year old.

It was all DramaKing nonsense which has become hyper prevalent here. We can’t pass a single day here without a code five DramaKing episode.

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