they weren’t the only ones warping my sense of reality—it was also the many flavors of online Nazi, the school shooters and the girls who longed to love them, the edgelords and their aggressive brooding, cranky old Ayn Rand—all these various manifestations of a worldview that insisted what mattered most was power, and that getting attention gave yo

Laws, taskforces, and PSAs are all artifacts that represent an ambivalent sort of concretization of the fears that swarm around children's online sociality.