> So the real question here to a parent is, Do you want your child to get invested in a platform which has consistently proven to be unethical, immoral, indulge in outright illegal activities or has been attributed with degrading democracies around the world?
Without commenting on any of the wider topics.
Let he who is without a misspent youth on 4chan cast the first stone.
Castigating parents for making bad choices around their children's online behavior seems a bit unfair.
I'd say it's safe to say the kids are off on their own after a certain age, and making their own choices on the world wide web. The vast majority of parents are not IT professionals and not up for the task of closely filtering access to the entire internet.
Not one bit of this can be solved by pushing the responsibility on individual parents.
I agree with your on the broader context of a parent being unable to control what a kid does online (or) on the question on whether a parent should really do that; But the parent(thread parent) specifically states that they allow the Messenger of Kids because that allows greater control over their kid's messaging activities and so my question simply is regarding the trust they place on the platform which provides that.
Without commenting on any of the wider topics.
Let he who is without a misspent youth on 4chan cast the first stone.
Castigating parents for making bad choices around their children's online behavior seems a bit unfair.
I'd say it's safe to say the kids are off on their own after a certain age, and making their own choices on the world wide web. The vast majority of parents are not IT professionals and not up for the task of closely filtering access to the entire internet.
Not one bit of this can be solved by pushing the responsibility on individual parents.