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Re:Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet ad... by mylasttour on Friday December 16, 2022 @11:26PM (#34024652)
Quite sad to see this hands-off approach being praised. I was raised in this kind of environment, along with most others I know, and that's how we all got to see our first beheading, suicide, or some grotesque sexual content before we even hit 12. It's not something you seek as a kid, but you get presented with it.

Sure, this would be considered the "excess", but I'm not sure if it's the kind that children should be made to deal with at such an age in such high volumes.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet ad... by matthewaveryusa on Friday December 16, 2022 @11:48PM (#34024804)
The lack of public beheadings is more of an exception of the last century than the norm. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but I don't think it really affects children all that much. rotten/liveleak certainly didn't make me any different -- if anything it was beneficial to understand that there's a violent world out there.
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