You’d think it would be simple. If you asked most parents if they’d let their kids run around a mall or supermarket unsupervised, most would say no. So why are they fine with doing just that on the internet?
The difference is that they can give their kid an iPad to look at all day and disconnect themselves from the responsibilities of being a parent while knowing that their child is safe. Many also assume YouTube kids is free of any bad content (it’s not).
I don’t know why children need to be so heavily protected from “harmful content”. Kids in the ‘90s grew up with Mortal Kombat, action movies, rotten.com, and Lenna, but these legislators think kids’ brains are going to shatter into a million pieces because they saw a nipple online? Preposterous.
Kids are clever and resilient. It’s these panicked adults who have issues.
I don’t know why parental responsibility to supervise children online needs to be shifted over to websites.
You’d think it would be simple. If you asked most parents if they’d let their kids run around a mall or supermarket unsupervised, most would say no. So why are they fine with doing just that on the internet?
The difference is that they can give their kid an iPad to look at all day and disconnect themselves from the responsibilities of being a parent while knowing that their child is safe. Many also assume YouTube kids is free of any bad content (it’s not).
I don’t know why children need to be so heavily protected from “harmful content”. Kids in the ‘90s grew up with Mortal Kombat, action movies, rotten.com, and Lenna, but these legislators think kids’ brains are going to shatter into a million pieces because they saw a nipple online? Preposterous.
Kids are clever and resilient. It’s these panicked adults who have issues.