Comment by konart
3 months ago
>same way we handle knives
I'm pretty sure most kids older than 12 do have access to kitchen knives. And actively use them too.
I generally agree with your point. But at the same time access to the internet resouces and to gun or a chaisaw is not the same.
I have no problem securing a few items if my home, but I have no control over whatever is available on the net.
Sure, I can write some firewall rules or create "kid's account" on a streaming platform, but I can do this for every single known service, chat, IM group etc.
Even if you did, you just lower the chances. I've created Netflix kids account specifically for mine. On its own it suggests also various documentaries on top of cartoons. We took the first one it suggested, and IIRC in second episode there was a very gruesome and detailed part with polar bear eating baby seals, one chew at a time.
One way to traumatize 4-year old, I'd say an effective one.
It’s a content issue mostly. Content providers do not want to properly tag and silo their content. And add parental control to kids account. They want to shift that burden to everyone but themselves.
"Of course, they're gonna know what intercourse is By the time they hit fourth grade They've got the Discovery Channel, don't they?"
Netflix age recommendations are a complete joke.
There was one documentary series that apparently appropriate for 7+ and had "motherfucker" within the first 30 seconds of one episode.
I don't know which parallel reality they're from where that is an appropriate word for a 7 year old to learn.
> motherfucker
Defines most fathers. Then again, I sincerely say thank you to many "insults".
The knife and the knife maker doesn't have intentions to pump propaganda and porn into the childs mind. The internet is not neutral like knife. The internet has an actor on the other end (human or algorithm) that has certain intentions. Thus a child can be intentionally influence via the internet. A knife does not act on its own to influence the child's mind. So, apples and oranges. I'd argue the internet is significantly more dangerous to a child vs a knife. The internet wasn't built for children, it was never child friendly to begin with and we shouldn't mutate the internet to cater to children. Its best to treat the internet like a hostile force for a child's mind and keep children completely off it to begin with. Make it illegal for children to use a device connected to the internet, it is the parents responsibility. Same as guns. Its not the gun smith or gun sellers responsibility to keep the child safe from guns - its the parent's.
> I'm pretty sure most kids older than 12 do have access to kitchen knives. And actively use them too.
True, and it's the parents responsibility to ensure that children won't injure themselves with the knives, or take them out or to school or whatever.
Yes, but my point was - they are not handled the same way as guns (and many other things) and that you simply can't enforce some things.