I have a question. What if it’s not just at a parenting level. What if it’s also at a school in level? Because I think at least partially there is a disconnect between media and internet literacy and people of all ages including children and parents.
I think we’re going to need such skills going forward and that there exist places in the world where students are being taught such things and are benefiting from them significantly.
Yet the immediate knee jerk reactions seem to be blame the parents and blame the companies that facilitate the access to the content.
It doesn’t have to be a parents by themselves against the world system. But it also can’t just be a “companies protecting the children” system because that’s not what companies do or are for? The need to maintain a profit margin flies directly in the face of the aim to hold companies responsible and the laws seem to be intent on capping the monetary consequences of a breach of the law.
I do feel that the least a parent should be required to do before complaining to a governing body that they find someone else is “harming” their child is to show that they have done their due diligence to protect said child. We punish parents for willful negligence and child endangerment all the time. I don’t understand why this is different but I also wonder if there are other options for educating both children and adults that could help the situation significantly.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Kids should be banned from the platforms.
But that requires the tools to do so. And then we are back at checking on ages and identities.