I say this as a non-parent, but someone who grew up in an authoritarian religion and who never would have found their way out by the age of 16 if it weren't for the wild west I found on BBSs, Gopher, and then the internet: I think parental controls are mostly bullshit. Just be a good parent, teach your kids critical thinking skills and media literacy, and let them see the world. I know there's probably scarier stuff out there than when I was 13 in 1990, but I am quite certain I would have been dead by now if I hadn't found my communities out there on the wider web.

I saved up to build my own PCs and buy faster and faster modems, and without the world they opened up, I shudder to think where I would be.