Re:YouTube has become the world's nanny
by OscarTheGrinch on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:11PM
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Thanks for this reminder. I am dreading that first flight into the unrestricted internet, but I guess I had better get my head around it.
Re:YouTube has become the world's nanny
by MountainMan1312 on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:36PM
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Maybe try to actually prepare your kids for these moments instead of trying to restrict them so hard. Teach them how to use a computer for real, instead of sitting them down at a hyper-restricted one for an hour a week.
Would you let your kids get a driver's license without teaching them the rules of road safety? Would you let your kids cook without telling them the stove is hot and will hurt them? Do your kids know not to let random people in the house?
Or do you just helicopter them so they never experience danger?
We've got filters set up at home; they worked fine for a while, but teenagers are easily impressed and soon we had to add stock photo websites to these filters. Then there's free VPN services, going around the (consumer grade) filters and time limits entirely.
Next up, schools give kids laptops, but they don't have the necessary IT prowess to lock them or the school internet down (and there's unrestricted public wifi everywhere, of course). The amount of shit I've found on there is unreal, and of course the thing breaks because of caggy-handedness.