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In Florida a significant portion of the mandatory reading books when I was in school were books that were previously banned.

Including, 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-- for that matter.

A number of books listed in the article are in the ALA list, which gives a historical perspective on attacks on these works: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks...

Books from this list that that aren't on the current ALA classics list (though they're also elsewhere on the ALA site but without context, e.g. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks...):

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/789/adventures-...

http://collectingchildrensbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-on...

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The mental image of a family getting upset about exposing their children to any of these books-- particularly in an adult supervised context-- while also allowing their children on the internet-- usually with no supervision-- is a little perplexing to me.

But some things never change: as the ALA lists show, these books have long histories of getting banned or challenged.

It blows my mind that people readily give 10 year olds iphones.

I have 3 teenagers and none of them have smartphones. They have no unfettered access to the internet in my house. I cannot think of a worse idea than a teenager with a camera and a wide-open internet connection. Some day they will have those things. But not today, Satan.

That sounds pretty bad tbh.

You can have parental control on iPhones and macbooks. I don't see the issue as long as you limit the screen time and whitelist only useful stuff. Use next DNS on your router.

> I cannot think of a worse idea than a teenager with a camera and a wide-open internet connection. Some day they will have those things. But not today, Satan.

What's the worst that will happen?

Porn? Twitter? 4chan?

Naked selfies

All of the above, the worst of those being the 2nd.

Just make sure they don't hate you for it. Your relationship and mutual trust is much more important. It would allow them to come to you if/when they need advice or consultation.

Your kids will slowly start resenting you for not allowing them to participate in modern social mechanisms, and find a way to do it behind your back.

All you're doing is encouraging them to hide things from you.

Yeah, my daughter, in california, first saw porn in 2nd grade on a 5th grader's iPhone. But at least she will learn the N-word from the much better source of 4chan rather than the more toxic to kill a mockingbird

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