Is the solution to suppress their voices, rather than protect them from trolls and suppress the voices of the trolls?
We also shouldn't elevate our children to become spokespeople for the world.
Let kids be kids.
Trolling is a fundamental right , not being trolled is not
If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of the site more to heart, we'd appreciate it.
Freedom of association is as fundamental a right as freedom of speech, and freedom of association means that nobody is entitled to an audience.
If you email me, I have the right to block your emails, and indeed refuse all email from your domain.
If you DM me on Twitter or Mastodon, I have the right to mute you, and indeed the right to refuse all DMs from non-mutuals.
If you come to my house to harangue me, I have every right to call the police and have you charged with harassment -- and in some jurisdictions I might even be able to get away with shooting you and claiming I did so in self-defense.
You have freedom to express yourself, but using that freedom to harass others for fun is strongly discouraged in society. It flies on the Internet because people can show their worst behavior with practically no discouragement.
But let's leave that aside. Do you consider gratuitous insults, slurs, doctored images and defamation aimed at a single individual, a protected right? If a troll did that in person, he would likely be dealt with legally, that's why they do it in numbers and behind a virtual gate. The idea of impunity brings the worst of them.
This is hilariously wrong in most jurisdictions, probably including the one you’re thinking of.
You may be parseing down ‘trolling’ to ‘behaving argumentatively on the internets’ but this is not the substance of what attacks are being brought against these young women, who are also minors.
Feel free to double down on “death threats aren’t trolling” and so on, if you’ve missed the point. UDHR article 12 for further reading.