Parental controls designed for children’s games can be confusing. They also don’t take into account how families may — or may not — communicate.

The “protection of children” has been the cited reason for a lot of controversial laws and measures recently. A common response is that parents should use parental controls to manage that on their own instead of relying on the government to do it to everyone. I found this article interesting since it touched on how the existing tools aren’t that good, and addressing that problem might be a better thing to focus on

Authors:

  • Sara M. Grimes | Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and Professor, McGill University

  • Riley McNair | PhD Student in Information Studies, University of Toronto

  • sandwich.make(bathing_in_bismuth)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    12 days ago

    How about not letting children near screens? Yeah, let’s be looked at as the Amish kid that got transfered, but this genuinely feels like the right choice. Maybe allow something like Wikipedia/encyclopedia in someway.