Maybe not strictly illegal, because there is a whole host of Constitutional violations there, but shaming people for letting their children go online unsupervised would do a lot, in combination with shaming those who are encouraging it.
There’s a big difference between somehow intruding enough into someone’s life to know if they’re doing something you think they shouldn’t, and encouraging parents to monitor their child’s online activities.
It makes me think of China and how strict they are on the kids, to the point of controlling how much they can be online or play games. It’s not the government’s business.
I grew up on the internet, back when it was good. Did I see things I shouldn’t have? Sure. But I also learned far far more than I ever did in school. It gave me a thirst for knowledge. And I believe it helped make me open minded enough to eventually end up as a part of this movement, too.
I didn’t get into it because it’s a whole separate issues but I feel that parents could be more involved these days if they had more time. Even when I was growing up in the 90s it was tough for your parents to be fully present because they were so bogged down with work and debt and stress trying to just get through each week. Now it’s so much worse.
Not that this excuses parents plopping their kids on a tablet all day.
Or we just go after these people putting evil stuff in media and stop them.
Why not both?
Maybe not strictly illegal, because there is a whole host of Constitutional violations there, but shaming people for letting their children go online unsupervised would do a lot, in combination with shaming those who are encouraging it.
There’s a big difference between somehow intruding enough into someone’s life to know if they’re doing something you think they shouldn’t, and encouraging parents to monitor their child’s online activities.
It makes me think of China and how strict they are on the kids, to the point of controlling how much they can be online or play games. It’s not the government’s business.
I grew up on the internet, back when it was good. Did I see things I shouldn’t have? Sure. But I also learned far far more than I ever did in school. It gave me a thirst for knowledge. And I believe it helped make me open minded enough to eventually end up as a part of this movement, too.
Oh, I agree but for some reason parents today seem less cautious than parents when I was a kid about what and who you might find on the internet.
I was also a kid once; when they act extremely private about something, that's a red flag.
Very true.
I didn’t get into it because it’s a whole separate issues but I feel that parents could be more involved these days if they had more time. Even when I was growing up in the 90s it was tough for your parents to be fully present because they were so bogged down with work and debt and stress trying to just get through each week. Now it’s so much worse.
Not that this excuses parents plopping their kids on a tablet all day.