Keira Knightley Says She’s Banned Social Media at Home to Protect Her 2 Kids from ‘Terrifying’ and ‘Unregulated’ Internet

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1. I really don’t blame her

2. We should all be doing this

3. Who would allow it at this point it causes so much developmental damage

4. Honestly, fair enough.

5. 10&6?absolutely!

6. Yes, it should be up to parents to do this.

7. Same! Since the beginning. It’s been good for my child. They might piss and moan about missing out sometimes but whatever, it’s our job to protect and teach them while they’re still figuring things out.

8. She probably knows the dangers better than most

9. More parents should be doing this tbh with their children

10. If only more parents actually cared about what their kids were up to on the internet…

11. I mean sometimes the things we do to protect our kids ends up hurting them in the long run. While hopefully social media changes for the upcoming generation, socializing online isn’t going anywhere. Teaching your kids to be responsible and understanding these tools is a way healthier approach than just abstinence.

12. They can’t be using if they’re too young anyway.

13. It isn’t too difficult to set up a whitelist. Honestly, I’m thinking I’ll set up individual logins when mine are still too young

14. Seems incredibly reasonable honestly. 

15. I really like the internet being unregulated. Can you imagine the level of brain wash we could create with REGULATED internet?

16. pro tip: you don’t have to ban social media from your kids if you never let them on it in the first place.

17. Fuck all that noise. Kids hear worse at school.

18. Tech elites have been doing this since iPhone 1

19. Not hard. Our 16yo and 13yo don’t have smart phones. They have laptops but they’re kept in common areas in the house. They’re not allowed to be on their computers in their rooms

20. Ok but how about the friends of her kids phones? Her kids would rather go to their friend’s house to go on to the internet.

21. 🎶 A hall of records, or numbers or spaces still undone. Ruins or relics, decúplese of the young.”

22. Parents should protect and educate their children; the internet is no place for unsupervised kids.
    She “*would love it if some regulation came in so it wasn’t all put on the parents*” but I disagree. Governments shouldn’t regulate the internet; we’re adults and shouldn’t have to upload our IDs to Reddit or Spotify. These policies are invasive, create data-security risks, and are easy to bypass.

23. She’s smart af but kids will be kids and they will want to rebel so gotta let them know ahead of time what they are missing out on

24. I read arguments that this isn’t a good idea. At some point they will be exposed to social media. If they have no training and exposure to it with parental guidance and then suddenly get full exposed, say at 18. Then they might be totally naive and be more likely to get superior extorted.

    Parents don’t have an easy simple obvious path to take here they are kinda damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

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