OK - so my parents are really weird about this.
I have had a parent-approved e-mail account since I was 7 – and I was allowed to have this because the e-mail account had this filter thing on it that would delete all mails that didn't have a certain word in the subject. (So if the word was banana, it would delete a mail with the subject "hello name" but not "hello banana name".)
And that was great for when I was 7 - I got an email and I couldn't get any bad emails, etc... just stuff from family and like one friend.
I am now 13 and STILL have the "protection" on it (although I am now smart enough to look at the emails that are "deleted"). And even though I look at all of the "deleted" emails, I haven't fallen prey to some evil cyber-predator, etc.
I have, for now, made a separate email that my parents know naught of for friends (I soooo want to tell my friends that they have to put some word into all emails to me because my parents are paranoid....) which is, of course, perfectly normal... but I would like to be able to have a parent-sponsored email that is normal too.
And the thing is, this is the ONLY online thing that they care about. I have my own laptop in my room with un-moderated access to the 'Net. (Of course, that doesn't include adult stuff which I don't look at, but they would never know if I did.) They both have PhDs in CS, so anyway....
I know how to disable the protection but they sometimes look at my email so I don't.
How do I make an argument to them (without revealing that I have been looking at the deleted email and have created a different email) that they don't have to protect my email the same as they did when I was 7.
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