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1 In 5 Boys Know Someone Their Age Who's In A Relationship With An AI Chatbot
(www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
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As someone who also grew up like this, I second this.
Those adults are ofeltrn fully aware of how oppressive it is, and like it.that way. That's why there's a multi-front push to remove options. School phone bans, age verification, library book bans, ebike bans, and more are all happening at the same time and I suspect for the same reason: systematically cutting off every Escape Route One by One to enable total isolation for indoctrination