r/YouthRights

About the recent school shooting, my parents were convinced that the shooter was influenced by shooting games and such. They believed everything on facebook about these kind of reports. I mean I understand it might be an influence, but to overgeneralize and prohibit me from playing it? How is it different from prohibiting driving because tons of fatalities are driving related? I hope yall understand where im coming from. I’m literally 18 and in college.

We need to scream at the top of our very own lungs for this.Su1c1d3 has been criminalized and its in the penalty code in the Bahamas.However this has not been working very well and its actually BACKFIRING.Look at how much adults and teens reset their character everyday!Its not fucking helping and its making people afraid to speak up.Luckly the senator says its not a crime its a mental health issue,and they will work to get it out of the penalty code.Altough there's a hotline,its criminalized.If you have the right to speak,the right to get help,the right to get better without the fear of going to prison.SPEAK UP FOR THE PEOPLE WHO CANNOT SPEAK UP!The Bahamas is ridicuosly favored while its backward...WE NEED TO STAND UP AND SPEAK UP!

This is a relatively new thing i've been seeing all over on social media nowadays. "Anyone born after 2000 is a baby" "Bro you're born in 2011? you're a fetus" etc. I'm autistic maybe that's why i can't tell what the joke is? I personally can't tell see anything other than meaningless superiority complex

this is coming from me as a 19-year-old so I was a minor not too long ago, so this stuff is still kind of fresh to me

I’m noticing a lot of minors, I guess specifically the ones who are like 14 to 17, tend to infantilize themselves and have a “come save me!” mentality. saying “i’m a minor!!” all the time, having some sort of learned helplessness simply because they’re under 18. “but I’m a minor!” you’re 16 with a drivers license and a full-time job. I don’t think you can use that card anymore.

This is also with celebrities and famous people who also just happened to be minors. like walker scobell, the guy who plays Percy Jackson. when somebody makes a mildly suggestive edit of him, people would say “that’s a child!!!” when he’s literally 17. minor celebrities are seen more as innocent vulnerable children, and not teenagers who have their own thoughts and opinions and autonomy. they are particularly safeguarded a lot more.

As a 19 year-old, this gives me the biggest sense of cognitive dissonance. someone who’s two years younger than me being treated like they’re made out of glass and I’m expected to have the next two decades of my life figured out.

I never wanted my 11-year-old to have social media. I’ve done everything I could through Screen Time to prevent them from downloading social media or inappropriate apps…or at least I *thought* I had.

Yesterday, I went through my child’s iPad and found screenshots that looked like they came from a comment section. I noticed my child’s screen name (which, unfortunately, was their actual name) and immediately went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out where it came from.

Turns out **CapCut**, which I always thought of as just a video/photo editing app, has what appears to be an almost hidden social media component.

I started looking through it and was honestly shocked. I didn’t see adults…almost everyone appeared to be kids, and based on what I could tell, many seemed to be around 10–14 years old. After seeing what was being posted, I’m starting to wonder if this is where some kids who aren’t allowed to have social media are going because their parents don’t realize CapCut has this feature.

And some of the things I saw were **wildly inappropriate**. Things I honestly don’t even feel comfortable repeating here.
If your child has CapCut on their iPad/iPhone, I would strongly recommend checking it out yourself. Go into the **“Me”** section in the bottom right and see what’s there. I had absolutely no idea this existed.

I’m honestly disgusted and furious that this is apparently happening on an app I thought was simply an editing tool. I’m seriously considering contacting CapCut directly to ask whether they’re aware of what’s happening in that section and what they’re doing about it.

**Parents, please check your kids’ CapCut accounts.** I genuinely had no idea.

UPDATE: How to find out if your kid has an account: click the “me” section, and then enter your child’s phone number or email. if they have an account, it’ll send a verification code to their phone or email. using that verification code will allow you to log in. from there you’ll be able to see if they have a profile or not.

UPDATE #2: I found a way to remove the App Store and Safari from their home screen entirely. If they want to download an app we will have to do it together. Thanks for all the helpful comments and to all the teenagers out there who were trolling in my comments, you’ll understand how I feel when you have kids. Just wait and see.

UPDATE # 3: How to remove Safari and the App store: Screentime > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Allowed Apps & Features. From there, you can toggle off whatever apps you want including the camera.

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Context: this was under a post of a person who went on a killing spree against sex offenders.

Location: Connecticut, USA

A few days ago, I was on Tiktok and stumbled on a video that was very upsetting.

Description:

The tiktok is from a piercer based in Chicago, IL. In the video, he's in the process of piercing a little girl's ears (she looks no older than 10). She's with her older brother and mother, and at the start of the video she's already nervous. The mother tells her that they aren't leaving until they're done with the ear piercing and if she doesn't want to be held down she needs to chill. The girl says that she's scared, to let her go and she says "no" multiple times. The mother says that she's gonna get her ears pierced and the brother threatens that she'll get whooped if she doesn't calm down.

The piercer reaches to grab her ear and the girl pulls back and says "wait". The brother threatens her again and she continues to get more nervous. She starts screaming, repeating let me go, and struggling as her guardians hold her down. The piercer goes forward with the piercing as the child screams and her family members hold her down.

After her first ear is pierced, the brother yells at her, telling her that she's overreacting. She stays still for the second piercing but it's clear that she's upset and traumatized.

The piercer on Tiktok still has the video up on their page, as well as the location of their business, but I made sure to screen record and screenshot a picture of their tiktok account. What are the proper channels I should go to as a Connecticut resident to report the piercer and the family? I've never reported anything like this so I don't want to mess anything up. I feel like someone who performs piercings on people who don't consent, whether they're a child or not, shouldn't have a license, and it's clear that the family isn't treating the girl in the video well.

We are weeks away from the enforcement of the Social Media Ban (Dec 10), and I feel like we are all just rolling over and giving up all our privacy rights because we’re too afraid to look like we "don't care about kids." If you actually look at the submissions to the government, the people who professionally care about kids—human rights lawyers, digital safety experts, and mental health researchers— all said DO NOT DO THIS.

I’m tired of the narrative that "Big Tech" and angry teenagers are the only opposition. Here is the actual list of professional bodies the government ignored to push this through:

1. The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) They explicitly warned that this ban is a "disproportionate limitation on human rights." They argued that instead of protecting kids, it cuts vulnerable teenagers off from support networks.

2. Digital Rights Watch They called this out for what it is: a "Safetyism" trap. By focusing entirely on "age verification," we are building the infrastructure for a Digital ID system that will eventually apply to everyone. They warned that collecting "identity papers" to use the internet creates a honeypot for hackers and normalizes the idea that you need to show your papers to speak in a public square.

3. The eSafety Commissioner (Yes, even them) While they are stuck enforcing it now, even the eSafety Commissioner’s office has previously noted that age verification technology is "immature" and fraught with privacy risks. The government has effectively handed them a grenade and told them to make it safe. The "Safety" Paradox

The "Ignored" Report: Crucially, there was a previous inquiry (The Joint Select Committee on Social Media) that ran for months and released its final report just days before the ban. That report did not recommend a ban. It recommended a "Duty of Care" (making platforms safer by design). The government took that report, threw it in the bin, and introduced the Ban Bill anyway. 

Recommendation 5 of the report explicitly called for the government to force social media platforms to give users (and parents) the power to:

• Alter: Change the parameters of what the algorithm shows them.

• Reset: Wipe the algorithm’s "memory" of their past behavior (so if a kid goes down a rabbit hole of depressing content, they can hit "reset" and get a neutral feed again). 

• Turn Off: Disable the recommender system entirely, returning the feed to a simple, chronological list of posts from people they actually follow.

The "Safety by Design" Recommendation Recommendation 2 proposed a "Digital Duty of Care." This would have legally required platforms to proactively identify harms (like addictive loops or eating disorder content) and change their product design to mitigate them.  Instead of banning kids, it would have forced Instagram/TikTok to stop using "slot machine" mechanics (infinite scroll, random rewards) on teenage accounts.

The "Credible Bodies" Count: While ~15,000 people wrote in, the committee only published about 118 substantive submissions from organizations. Almost all of the major mental health and human rights bodies in that list opposed the ban or raised severe concerns.

If you think this was a carefully considered policy, look at the timeline:

1. Nov 18: The government's own Joint Select Committee releases a report after a months-long inquiry. It does NOT recommend a ban. It recommends a "Digital Duty of Care" to force platforms to change their addictive algorithms. 

2. Nov 21: The Government ignores its own committee and introduces the "Under 16 Ban" Bill.

3. The Trap: They opened a Senate inquiry into this specific bill and gave the public and experts only 24 hours to make submissions.

4. The Response: Despite having only one day, the committee was flooded with ~15,000 submissions.  The Result: They passed it anyway.

The government claims this is for the children, yet they have:

• Ignored the mental health experts who said education and platform regulation (making the algorithms less addictive) works better than bans.

• Created a system where educated 15-year-olds will just use VPNs while the less tech-literate kids get left behind.

• Pushed a solution that requires more data collection to solve the problem of data collection.

We aren't "protecting the kids." We are gentrifying the internet. We are turning it from an open library into a gated community where yes they say it isn’t, but the inevitable price of entry is facial recognition or your government ID. They didn't listen to the experts on "the children." They didn't listen to the experts on "technology." They listened to polling data that said this would look good in an election year.

Edit 1: also here are some links to help repeal the ban:

1. https://www.instagram.com/waltzformatilda2025?igsh=bnV6MTFyMXI4aWxr&utm_source=qr (We desperately need volunteers for this protest)
2. (Gov) Petition to cancel ban https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN8584

Edit 2: Edited for greater clarity/more concise paragraph organisation.