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by tonyedgecombe 2702 days ago
I'm not a kid, thank you.

Yet your response is very child like.

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On the contrary, GP is resisting the continual infantilising of Western countries by their corporates, media and governments.

"to treat someone as if that person were a child, with the result that they start behaving like one" [1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/infantil...

The doctrine of legal paternalism is much less commonly seen now than it was in the past, with a few exceptions.
I don't see it that way. Could it be some sort of culturally narrow stereotyping on you side?

As for the topic I'm interested if you really feel it ok for you to be a subject of a soft form of parental control from a commercial entity?