Meta pays pro-Meta influencers when countries look into teen safety on Instagram

Re:Meta pays pro-Meta influencers when countries look into t... by s5fs on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:55PM (#49348635)

I'm a parent, and Parental Controls are garbage across all services I've used. They seem intentionally confusing and their options feel disconnected from the usage of the products at all. Since nobody uses these controls there is very little support available, so every permission issue I encounter requires me to deep dive and often still fail.

Parental controls for EA games are shit.

Parental controls for Amazon are shit.

Parental controls for Netflix are shit.

Parental controls for YouTube are shit.

Parental controls for Roblox is especially shit. They have games like "Gay Test" and "Femboy Test" marked as All Ages which is bananas to me.

The end result is that my kids can't use these services without an adult present, which defeats the purpose of having Parental Control in the first place.

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Re:Meta pays pro-Meta influencers when countries look into t... by expedition32 on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:07PM (#49351885)

Basically as a parent you don't want your 11 year old daughter chatting with adults. Unfortunately the internet cannot really accommodate this.

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