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Even if it's wrong for parents to expose kids to toxic online environments like Twitter, surely you'd agree that someone trolling kids online (like with "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!") should be ashamed of themselves and driven out of polite society, yes?

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> surely you'd agree that someone trolling kids online ... should be ashamed of themselves and driven out of polite society, yes?

I think pretty much everyone involved here, aside from the children, ought to be ashamed of themselves. I don't buy into the idea that people ought to be driven out of society though.

So parents are just as bad for letting children engage in activism as the people threatening to murder and rape them?

I'd be curious to learn how many of these children actually decided to engage in activism themselves. If there's anything I learned while in competitive sports, it's that parents have no problem forcing their kids into things the kids don't care about because they want their kids to be famous professional athletes and I imagine this situation is similar.

Its like taking your kid to a strip club. Its putting your child in danger to begin with. Of course trolls are still responsible for their behavior, but the parents are not off the hook.

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