From 2023...
#TechExecs protect their kids from their own products. America’s children deserve the same
While
#BigTech fights regulations that would protect children, its leaders apply a different standard for their own offspring.
BY Katie A. Paul, 5/24/2023
Excerpt: "As detailed in news reports in recent years, members of the tech elite have directed their nannies to keep their kids away from
#AddictiveScreens and sent their kids to a private San Francisco school with a strict no-screens policy. 'I just wanted our kids to have a
#TechnologyFree start, so that they would be playing and running around and picking up leaves and getting dirty, rather than sitting inside and watching a screen,' said one parent.
"This attitude extends to the C-suite. Susan Wojcicki, who recently stepped down as YouTube CEO, admitted in 2017 that she sometimes confiscated her kids’ phones. Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, revealed in 2018 that his 11-year-old son did not have a phone. The following year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that he didn’t want his young children sitting in front of a computer 'for a long period of time.'
"One former Facebook executive, Chamath Palihapitiya, put it more bluntly, saying that he felt 'tremendous guilt' about helping to build the social network and that his children 'aren’t allowed to use that shit.'
"These admissions have been largely forgotten with the speed of the news cycle over the past five years. But taken together, they reveal an industry that tries to shield its kids from the dangers of technology—while touting the very same products for everyone else. It begs the question: Why shouldn’t America’s young people receive the same levels of protection that Silicon Valley parents provide for their own?
While tech executives have gone quieter lately on the subject of how they regulate tech use for their offspring, there are signs that they continue to harbor private doubts about the products they market to the world. When tech-focused publication The Information surveyed more than 1,000 subscribers last year, it found that 'Silicon Valley’s children spend far less time on screens than the average American kid.'
[...]
By trying to shield their kids from the ill effects of the products they make, tech leaders are following a pattern seen in industries like
#BigTobacco, whose executives, in congressional testimony 25 years ago, conceded that they didn’t want their children to smoke."
Read more:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90900166/tech-social-media-protection-children
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