How about buying them a phone, and a $20 gift debit card, and then letting the app store jackals have their way with whatever happens to the rest of the cash, until it's all spent?

Probably a horrible idea, considering all the other complexities of the internet at large, and some of the careful supervision it necessitates.

I mean, consider the sad tale of "Slender Man."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/13/slender-man-st...