Some of you really didn’t watch enough PBS kids growing up and it really shows. So let me tell you about the futility of this safety team **** and the staple of child internet safety since NCSA Mosaic made access to the World Wide Web possible for normies who couldn’t use Usenet in 1993. What you will see in every single serious child internet safety PSA is a generalized sentiment of do not trust the internet with lots of common rules like; “Don’t post personal information.” “Don’t talk to strangers.” “Don’t meet with people IRL that you met on the internet.” “Ask your parents before _____.” “If X log off and tell your parents.”
The reason for this is that children are naturally trusting and most if not all internet child predation is based on this. Most of grooming is trust building. So... Teaching children to act distrustful and be skeptical is the single most effective method of child internet safety.
The safety team is going to pose as a force to be trusted, and I hope the above has highlighted the main issue with that. I’m going to mention that its futile compared to actually spreading internet safety information and that the established staff has no concept of anonymous email services, onion browsing, inspect element, and thinks there actually capable of retaliating against false reports dropped into there email. But, with that side point out of the way safety team is contrarian to the basics of internet safety by trying to create an internet group that can supposedly be trusted. Big ******* spoiler this helps accelerate the grooming process. You want the opposite of this.
Grooming is an interesting topic if your into psychology but to avoid slapping down a text book of bullshit its a form of social manipulation and positions of power are easier to groom from. You can trust me Lil’ Billy i’m staff i’m apart of the safety team which means i’m trust worthy. Its an exploitable hole that you have created.
IF YOUR UNDERAGED THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS RIGHT HERE.
Don’t trust the safety team. Don’t trust the staff. Don’t trust anyone you meet on lotc. If you feel uncomfortable at any point in time don’t bother with any part of the lotc community or staff log off and talk to your parents and if you don’t feel comfortable with your parents then click this link. While I do say most of grooming is trust building theirs other tactics like using fear, alienation, fear of alienation, and dependency. If **** gets weird you need to have the nerve cut yourself off despite what threats or social dependencies are levied against you. Big ******* point is don’t respond. You get weird messages then you should ignore, delete, and block.
P.S. blocking the feedback forums to unregistered users is very sketchy.