I actually semi agree with this post.
But parents also need to make an effort.
I got all 3 of my nieces a tablet over the years for bdays. I set them up. Turned on parental controls before I gave it to them. It was pretty easy.
People talking about parental controls as if that magically stops the new ways kids get bullied
Maybe lazy parents should stop expecting the iPad/internet to do the parenting?
And if they want “infrastructural help” perhaps be the change you want to see.
I have nieces and nephews that were part of the first wave of kids growing up with internet. Had many discussions with siblings and friends about how to handle it.
As an IT person I, of course, brought technological solutions to them, which pretty much all of them rejected.
Turned out it was just a modification of anything else requiring adult supervision - just like cooking, mowing the lawn, or even just handling a sharp knife. They taught their kids by supervising until they were competent.
And I was humbled.
Clearly you’re not a parent. Which of fine, but don’t criticize.
I’m a parent telling you to parent your kids instead of making laws against grown ups.
I do criticize. If you can’t do your job as a parent, use condoms. Don’t fuck with society and privacy at a whole because you failed at the one and only job you had to do. Parenting.
Have you tried talking to your kids and enabling parental controls?
Have you considered not blaming the victims for crimes against them?
Can you describe these “crimes”? Have you considered not eroding personal privacy rights for everyone just because you don’t know how to enable parental controls?
Parent here, its the easiest shit in the world. Takes maybe five minutes to setup parental controls on any service. Its also very easy to login to your router and block URLs. If you can’t keep up with 1 machine by just typing website into it you are part of the problem. The other part is massive corporations wanting to avoid responsibility for their products and platforms.
Is this a pro-age-verification meme?
That caught me off guard a bit too, but I’m glad Lemmy isn’t so much of an echo chamber that this sort of stuff doesn’t ever make it through. Nevertheless, I disagree with identity verification and any of it’s other names.
Maybe some good conversations will come as a result.
It’s a not an echo chamber entirely, if you look at my votes on the meme, it’s a fair split for something that is generally against the popular opinion (the popular opinion being “just blame the parents”).
But the “pile on” nature of Lemmy is very real.
“Boohoo, people don’t like it when I suggest curtailing everyone’s rights to privacy and anonymity to make up for my shitty parenting skills.”
Yep. Lemmy is 4chan for leftist assholes.
Nah, it’s a shitty troll.
It’s a “stop just blaming the parents meme”. That’s lazy.
I will 100% blame parents who would decide to erode personal privacy rather than be bothered to talk to their children and enable parental controls.
We literally have the infrastructure to do so. Have you heard of internet filters on home routers? Parental controls? On some, it’s literally a checkbox, and is advertised on the box as an option.
What exactly is the “infrastructural help” you’re proposing?
Eroding personal privacy to “save the kids” instead of just enabling a network filter. Better yet, we could require internet filter options on all routers sold in the US. But this parent would rather have everyone lose their rights to internet privacy so that they don’t have to do the hard work of enabling parental controls themselves.
Tax money
Sure, if we are going to make sacrifices for parents then they can make sacrifices for us. How about no kids at bars or breweries, and I am allowed to hit your kids if they get within arms reach of me?
I’m ok with no kids at bars and breweries. And no you can’t abuse children just to make a political point.
Ok then we are back at me not giving a fuck what your kids do on the Internet.
