You’re setting up a false dichotomy, don’t you think?
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Never let your kids play age-appropriate online games, which Roblox ostensibly falls under – risk forming lifelong resentment as kids forfeit social capital upon exclusion from peers
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Let the kids play, but insert yourself into every facet of that experience for the entire time – first of all, who has time for that? This course also risks heavy resentment and embarrassment
Am I missing another option? As far as I know, the parents vetted the game and thought they were all being reasonable about exposure, but the kids were still harmed.
yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
As someone without kid, this is too easy of a defense. And if you truly think about it for more than 5 minutes, or watch any documentary on how pedophiles operate, you’d realize.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
That would require them to actually think at all, it makes much more sense to expect the parent to monitor the child’s activity constantly and never let them do anything on the Internet unsupervised. They will also then complain years later about helicopter parents not giving them any freedom
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I have a kid who thinks roblox… I’m sorry, who knows roblox is slop because I taught him about it and he’s seen poor behavior from friends from playing it.
It should be a combo of both individual patenting and regulations. Ideally
yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
This requires a technological literacy level we cannot assume everybody has, tho. And the issue is that those pedo fucks are as smart as they are evil. They share books on how to groom and abuse kids. It’s is fucking wild.