Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled
undrwater@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoRemember that “they” (at least here in the US) are as varied in opinion as are we.
The ones who have a sincere desire to protect children want them to have limited exposure to content online.
My personal thought is children should generally not be engaging others online, but it should be a social push (“don’t talk to strangers online” “don’t allow your children to be unsupervised online” ).
As for arresting child abusers, we seem to be in the habit of putting them in high office.
Parents who care are doing that. The amount of parents who don’t give a fuck and will just put their id in for their kids to watch porn would shock you. Shit the amount of them that would sell their kids to sex slavery is higher than you probably think.
Fuck this law they don’t give a fuck about kids.
When I was younger, there use to be “public service announcements” on TV that provided education for the kids and adults watching.
Those people should probably start parenting their own children instead of begging for the government to do it for them, then.
And yes, it’s usually the same people.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Children shouldn’t be on Reddit or Lemmy.
undrwater@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I agree, children shouldn’t be on tiktok or any of these kinds of platforms.
And yes, it should be social pressure rather than legal pressure.