Say you were a guardian or parent and get to decide when a child can get a phone or use a computer and get internet with it. If you wish you can also install software and change router settings to what you see fit.

Some parents decide to forbid the internet completely, others are more relaxed. Some go the helicopter route, and some do not care whatsoever what their kid does online.

What is your policy on letting a child use the internet?

    • IAMgROOT
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      2 days ago

      this is just an extremely fascist take

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          1 day ago

          so like half the people here (who are apart of the lgbtq community) would be dead without a way to communicate to others outside of “gay”-hating families

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            15 hours ago

            ‘Killing people is bad and we should generally have rules against it.’

            ‘But what if I need to defend myself?’

            Do you think that limited circumstance warrant throwing away the rule? Or maybe, just maybe, we stick to the general as a general rule but excuse violations of the rule where it seems reasonable? The vast majority of kids are not endangered by queerness, and those that are should be helped, but the answer to a few kids needing help is not to open the floodgates on everyone else. Computers are great tools but the modern internet is no place for an unaccompanied child. It’s probably not even good for adults, but adults can at least pretend to give informed consent in a way kids cannot.

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              15 hours ago

              “children communicating to others that are not their parents is bad and we should generally have rules against it”

              “dude WHAT”

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              15 hours ago

              hey, we got a word for that, its called MURDER ban MURDER not kiilling

              and do you have ANY IDEA how big the internet is?

              youtube and those slopsites make up less than 0.0001% of it

              “the internet” is like saying “the universe”