Post #2351215

2026-03-20 06:59 UTC

@cas@social.treehouse.systems @jane@smolhaj.social @freya@social.highenergymagic.net I mentioned here here: https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/B4PU0aMRZdCXV8QAJk but tl:dr I believe that a child young enough to need parental controls should not be left alone unsupervised w/ an internet device, and that teenagers should have already learnt discretion and have built a trust relationship with their parents in a good world then, parental controls would just be guardrails for the former, but in the world we live in, i fear how much abuse, well, abusive parents might cause on the latter by forcing parental controls on their devices

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@jane@smolhaj.social 2026-03-20 07:04

@navi@social.vlhl.dev @freya@social.highenergymagic.net @cas@social.treehouse.systems my god, the point of parental controls is tbe potential to turn of browsers and the "internet"

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@jane@smolhaj.social 2026-03-20 07:09

@navi@social.vlhl.dev @freya@social.highenergymagic.net @cas@social.treehouse.systems a trust relationship is exactly the thing i am arguing for, i'm not sure how much you dealt with actual parenting and supervising children. you're arguing against a cptsd survior, i had very a abusive parents. the reality is that we as a foss community should enable healthy foss tools, because the stalkerware will get developed anyway due to money incentives. and it will not rely on any age bracket stuff as the primary usecase for stalkerware is stalking partners.

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@cas@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-20 09:39

@navi@social.vlhl.dev @jane@smolhaj.social @freya@social.highenergymagic.net I think I could be persuaded either way on this topic tbh, it depends a whole lot on the family, the interests of the kid, their relationships, etc...

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