Nope.
Lock it down until they understand stuff like sex and death and propaganda and trolls. You don't want them learning that shit on tiktok.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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I don't want them using freedom denying closed source non-free software like TikTok to begin with.
You can't have "child safe" Internet and "freedom". Child safe inherently means censorshipon some way.
ability to choose not to associate, including ability to censor, is a very important part of freedom.
I understand that ability to not associate but having some one else choose what you can and can't watch isn't freedom in my mind.
Who said anything about someone else deciding?
Why do you want kids on the internet? It's like asking for child-safe cigarettes.
If I was never a kid on the internet I doubt I would be an engineer today. My girls can't make bracelets for a living.
The internet absolutely wasn't safe for kids then, and to say I have doubts that a "kid-safe" internet would have had the same effect on you is to put it mildly. Sanitized and child-safe spaces aren't what make for capable adults.
Yeah I have frequently thought that I'm really glad that Pesonal Identifable social media like Facebook didnt' exist when I was a teen, but I sure wish video sharing services similar to YouTube did. We did some really incredible stuff, some of it even videotaped but the tapes got lost, and it would be great to re-watch 'em.
As someone who was a teen with those things becoming relevant (MySpace era) I used /b/ and still turned out a lefty. 🤷♂️
what is /b/ ?
4chans "random" image board, it was (likely still is) full of misogyny, racism, porn, gore, whatever.
Yes.
And you do it by actually supervising your children while they are on the internet.
As a parent I clearly have to be involved in my daughters' lives but my involvement doesn't give them a kid friendly free and open internet if no one, including possibly myself, is using Free Software to do so.
As far as me self-hosting, In theory I could do an AWS thing, but I can't actually put a server in my closet because my ISP doesn't allow open ports.
What's with the down votes? Are we really in a lemmy community that doesn't care about, or worse is in opposition to, Free Software?
Nope.