But I couldnt disagree more that the internet needs regulation.
Parents need to regulate their childs use of the internet, not the government regulating the internet.
Online safety = censorship
>distressing pictures and videos
How does this work though? Like, would you regulate images of current ongoing wars for everyone, because others don’t want to set up their own personal limits in their own household?
There’s so many tools out there for this. I do agree there’s plenty of things in many aspects of life best kept away from children until they are deemed mature enough to understand, but that is partly the parents job, it can’t just be removed from society as a whole because some parents don’t do that job?
She watched content rated 15-18 online, about depression and suicide, liked and posted it on her own social media, for over a year, and her parents think the solution is to just regulated it for everyone because they ignored the signs? I feel harsh even writing this, but this just isn’t logical.
>The age of self-regulation on internet platforms must be ended for the sake and safety of our children
Where was the self-regulation to start with here? End what? There was nothing to end.
I personally agree that Facebook isn’t really a safe place for children. Why was she allowed on it completely unsupervised for over a year if this parent had a problem to start with? Where was the self regulation?
Any regulation will fail, unless you go full great firewall.
We’d be better off preparing kids on what to do if they see something distressing.
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Better idea – if you give your child a smartphone or computer, monitor use and lock that shit down. Apple makes that *super* fucking easy, I’d imagine Android/Windows does too.
Unless they’re old enough to buy it themselves, it’s use but only under certain conditions.
I’d argue parents need to not let their 12 year olds have unfettered access to social media for over 14 hours a day…
Let’s face it, a grieving parent doesn’t care about the intricacies of how ‘Internet regulation’ would work.
It’s an emotional response and I hate that it as it feeds into the narrative all the cretins in the government trying to undermine privacy and E2E encryption love to spin.
“If you don’t support this then you don’t care about children being harmed.”
Babies can’t drink whiskey, so we regulate the alcohol industry. But what we don’t do is stop adults from drinking whiskey, we just stop children from getting access to it. Something to consider.
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I sympathise with their loss.
But I couldnt disagree more that the internet needs regulation.
Parents need to regulate their childs use of the internet, not the government regulating the internet.
Online safety = censorship
>distressing pictures and videos
How does this work though? Like, would you regulate images of current ongoing wars for everyone, because others don’t want to set up their own personal limits in their own household?
There’s so many tools out there for this. I do agree there’s plenty of things in many aspects of life best kept away from children until they are deemed mature enough to understand, but that is partly the parents job, it can’t just be removed from society as a whole because some parents don’t do that job?
She watched content rated 15-18 online, about depression and suicide, liked and posted it on her own social media, for over a year, and her parents think the solution is to just regulated it for everyone because they ignored the signs? I feel harsh even writing this, but this just isn’t logical.
>The age of self-regulation on internet platforms must be ended for the sake and safety of our children
Where was the self-regulation to start with here? End what? There was nothing to end.
I personally agree that Facebook isn’t really a safe place for children. Why was she allowed on it completely unsupervised for over a year if this parent had a problem to start with? Where was the self regulation?
Any regulation will fail, unless you go full great firewall.
We’d be better off preparing kids on what to do if they see something distressing.
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Better idea – if you give your child a smartphone or computer, monitor use and lock that shit down. Apple makes that *super* fucking easy, I’d imagine Android/Windows does too.
Unless they’re old enough to buy it themselves, it’s use but only under certain conditions.
I’d argue parents need to not let their 12 year olds have unfettered access to social media for over 14 hours a day…
Let’s face it, a grieving parent doesn’t care about the intricacies of how ‘Internet regulation’ would work.
It’s an emotional response and I hate that it as it feeds into the narrative all the cretins in the government trying to undermine privacy and E2E encryption love to spin.
“If you don’t support this then you don’t care about children being harmed.”
Babies can’t drink whiskey, so we regulate the alcohol industry. But what we don’t do is stop adults from drinking whiskey, we just stop children from getting access to it. Something to consider.