Europe is racing to protect children online. The continent is torn between banning certain content, implementing age verification and addressing privacy risks, while also holding platforms accountable. Amid rising harm and political pressure, experts insist that digital literacy and shared responsibility must prevail.
All the tools already exist. They just need to make it so easy to use them the parents don’t have an excuse not to. My sister-in-law thinks all this online age verification stuff is a good idea then let’s her kids use a grown up YouTube account because she can’t be bothered arguing with them. My kid can’t even use her junior one unless I put the PIN code in for her (which I never do).
tale as old as time. The tools do exist, you’re right, and have existed for a long time now. Remember tv remote lockouts? the problem? people are lazy and just want someone else to do shit for them.
Remember the days when videogames didn’t have ratings? parents complained because of games like DOOM and Mortal Kombat so they slapped a rating thing on them with parents NOW expecting workers at retail stores to essentially do the parenting for them. kids still bought the games.