Relieved because the lulz is something you have to look at if you want to understand what’s going on online, and it seemed that everyone over 30 was completely ignorant.

Disappointed because of the naive optimism, “ooh, youth culture, let’s be tolerant and understanding.” Lurk around ED and 4chan a little more, and you’ll find a few kids who explain what brought them to their nihilism. Usually it’s what they were exposed to online when they were younger, horrible things that they saw when they were far too young to handle them. You’ll find that when it comes down to it, a lot of young people who are part of this culture resent having been exposed to the horrors of the net way too early.

Now tell me how you’re going to stop this situation without turning the whole internet into a virtual police state. It’s not gonna happen. So here’s a shocker: as a kid myself (college), I suggest a simple solution: just DON’T GIVE KIDS UNSUPERVISED INTERNET ACCESS whatsoever until they’re old enough to handle it. You know, sometime in the teens, certainly not at 10, 11. Fact is, the internet is a powerful tool, and when you put any powerful tool in the hands of children who are by definition immature, you get bad results. Would you hand an AK-47 to your 10-year old? No? Do you think the Internet is less powerful than guns? No? These days, kids question the maturity of their parents.

In general, I’m more concerned about the moral relativists or nihilists who use their pseudo-philosophy or sense of superiority/entitlement to engage in damaging behavior. (Here’s a comic for amusing illustration: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1127 )

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