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0:05 · 630K views · Dec 31, 2013
A short Simpsons clip of Helen Lovejoy shrieking 'Think of the children!', the show's parody of moral panic.
Used as a joke reply in threads about child-safety justifications for surveillance and censorship laws.
4 comments from Hacker News
> Odd for government to go after chat apps and online encryption when they can't stop child sexual abuse in those places where it happens the most. No, its totally consistent with the State's MO; using the 'Helen Lovejoy' argument [1] is entirely specious reasoning when even the most superficial analysis on the perpetrators of said crime is done... but its not meant to appeal to reason, rather its meant to create a knee-jerk reaction when someone tries to refute it before being coaxed down the collectivize population's throat. It's so easy and simple to say 'what, do you want pedophiles to use this tech now?' and end any semblance of coherent logical discourse on the matter: and that's the aim, to end any discussion or counter arguments before its enacted and further erode privacy and civil liberties. When I really started to delve into the 'why and hows' of cryptocurency I came to the conclusion that after Wikileaks/Assange got cut off from the legacy system in 2010 that we were already in the 2nd Crypto War (Julian is a key target and is shows [2] as he's been treated like a POW) that followed after Zimmerman's PgP project succeeded and ended the 1st. I'm a Signal user and I'm not entirely sure what that 'dumping the US Market' would entail, will they pull Signal from an app store? Meaning I could just compile it while accessing it from a VPN, or compiling it myself on PC? 1: this video 2: [LINK]
I agree that for serious threats of violence, contacting the police or buying a gun is the correct response. For personal attacks/etc, including ones that "attack your core identity" (whatever that means), I do believe that a thick skin is the right answer. I was implicitly (though not explicitly) describing the latter situation. You've provided no argument why that isn't the case apart from "won't someone think of the women" (ala Helen Lovejoy this video ).
Yeah exactly, had it not been for Facebook and the rest of social media not taking children online seriously, The Simpsons wouldn't have had to mock the cultural meme of blaming everything on saving children back in 1996 this video
Ha, I had not heard of orbital rings yet, thank you. My comment there is "who will think of the children/astronomers" parodying the simpsons. Although that applies space elevators as well. this video