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No parent should have to worry that giving their child a smartphone opens the door to abuse and exploitation.
Yes they should be. They should be extremely worried about that. They should be fucking parents and handle it. Not have big daddy government do it for them.
How? How will they do this?
Oh, an always on, always watching government mandated app connecting to a centralized government server?
For the kids!
Obviously an AI will need to be monitoring your screen at all times.
I don’t care if kids see porn. They’ll live.
Stop fucking with adults and blaming that goal.
My ex exposed our kids to porn and it seriously messed with one of them. More than a year of counselling and they were still never the same. Only took until adulthood that they could really process it. Some kids I would imagine may unalive themselves over it if the level of depression and anxiety my kid went through is anything to go by.
I’m also a child sexual abuse survivor and was also exposed to porn as a kid and had issues because of it. It also took until adulthood for me to work through my sexual trauma and come to a place of mostly peace. But I am not likely to ever be 100% (even with the therapy I’ve had).
Porn has only gotten more extreme over time with some seriously fucked up shit.
So no, they may not survive and if they do, they don’t always come out of it mentally unscathed.
Porn exposure to kids is a form of sexual abuse and should be taken just as seriously.
may unalive themselves
Oh please stop that. We are not Tiktok here.
And it depends on the kid, the kind of porn they see (bdsm, skat) and how enlightened the kid is, that porn is not like reality.
The language used in the entire thing is so off putting. Like they really really want you to believe is for the children. Also, the first country in the world that won’t allow children to share pictures of themselves nude? I had to chuckle at that (to be clear, I think children should not operate devices unattended to avoid stuff like this, but that should be parenting, not daddy government)
think children should not operate devices unattended to avoid stuff like this, but that should be parenting, not daddy government)
Same. The colateral damage of policies like this is just too much.
I’m not a parent but I do sympathize with parents in this day. I know they can’t supervise kids 24/7. Often the kids are more techy than the parents. Kids can run circles around them. I get that the internet is dangerous for kids. So is big-tech, IMO. Getting kids used to being vassals of big tech, that’s harmful in a differnet way. Plus, social media can harm their mental heath and development. It even makes them less empathetic, esp while their personalities are still developing.
I get all that! I want kids to be safe too! IDK what the right answer is. But it can’t be this. It can’t be total surveilence of every picture everyone takes! It can’t be turning control of every device over to Apple and Google, as the final authority. This guy warned us for good reasons.
There is a real prob with kids and tech. But we can’t, forgive the exp, throw the baby out with the bath water, and lose ultimate control of our own devices.
Teaching kids about openness and dangers of online activities is one of the best things to do. Make sure your kids feel safe to tell you what they are up to and you as a parent be also trusting on your kids judgment if they tell you the truth. Sure, some privacy is needed, but if something is up there is ground to talk about it.
Another thing not discussed at all is parents actually spending time on what the kids use as apps or understand their social life, to make sure you understand as a parent how something works or how the circle of friends look like.
