I wrote (yet again) about the "protect the children" moral panic regarding the internet, and how we should focus on raising kids to be safe in the real world, rather than trying to force the internet to be perfectly safe. Reality is that not everyone is great. Pretending that everything is safe does not prepare people for real life. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/24/rather-than-making-the-internet-safe-for-kids-make-your-kids-safe-for-the-real-world/
Rather Than Making The Internet Safe For Kids, Make Your Kids Safe For The Real World

We’ve been talking a lot lately about the massive moral panic going on right now, claiming that the internet is somehow inherently dangerous for kids. As we’ve noted, the evidence simpl…

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@mmasnick but, but that would require us to do the hard work of actually raising our kids, instead of kicking that can down the road to anyone who just happens to be passing by Mike, like the government, or teachers, or video games, or 5G. And what kind of a world would that be, where we had to take some responsibility, face our challenges with our kids and actually👇🏽