Desperate for social media ban to work, but parents say it’s 'impossible'
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Tech companies are coming under fire as Australian parents increasingly voice concerns that some online platforms are failing to keep kids under 16 off their platforms.
  • searabbit@piefed.socialEnglish
    17·
    2 天前

    I’m more on the side of blaming parents on this issue, but also these tech companies are not even taking the surface level steps to comply. At a minimum, Snapchat shouldn’t be advertising the platform as 13+ anymore, the parental controls should work, and if a parent reports that their child is on the platform, they should ban the account. We don’t need age gating at the os level, we need these tech companies to literally stop luring kids onto their platforms for easy profit.

  • shiroininja@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 天前

    Parents should parent their kids, not the government. There are a million ways for a parent to block and restrict access to these apps. It’s a lack of creativity and will on their part. This generation of parents have no excuse, we grew up with this technology as it developed. It’s not like it was for our parents, who don’t know how this new shit worked. You literally have YouTube and the world’s information at your fingertips and you can’t figure this out yourselves?