omcgo

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TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] omcgo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Because its contextual; he wants his son to communicate; theres nothing wrong with kids talking to adults online: my childhood was largely spent price gouging dumb adults on Puzzle Pirates when I was 8, 9 years old: learnt a tonne about micro economics.

There is however a big issue of bad actors abusing unvetted channels.

Child sexual extortion cases in the UK soar: Charities warn threat of sexual extortion (or sextortion) against children ‘not diminishing’ as new data show sextortion cases soar 72% in a year. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] omcgo@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

We have to look at hardware-level solutions like VOOP, which can block the sending of nudes (for example) entirely.