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Post #3330804
2026-06-15 11:00 UTC
@JubalBarca@scholar.social When I was a kid, my dad didn't place parental controls on our devices or limit us, he simply said, "if your curious about stuff that you find, come to me and we'll talk about it.", I think I turned out pretty well with that in mind, he also said, "If you find stuff and then start acting badly because of what you find, then I'll limit what you can do."
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@JubalBarca@scholar.social 2026-06-15 11:25
@LeonianUniverse@leonianplace.masto.host Better parental efforts would be great, but a core problem with this as a solution to all these problems is that a lot of parents are very clearly not capable of doing it effectively. A lot of adults are not capable of protecting *themselves* from online harms: sometimes, too, the adults in a child's life are the actual problem that they need to turn to the internet for help with, rather than vice versa. My experience was not dissimilar to yours, but that's not universal.