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Torrent, vod, old good dvd. You just need to control what they watch. As well watching more than one or two hours of tv by kids was proven to have negative effects on their concentration and grades later in primary school.

So maybe: - selection of vod, - books reading, - something else than stupid box which as well cuts down on their imagination (you know, fiest elephant ive heard about from mothers book story... I had to imagine that bastard!)

Netflix has option for kids, but its still little control. There are ghosts whatever. Not really for kids in all age groups.

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Holier-than-thou parents are still going to control what books children read at the expense of children's intellectual growth. A lot of parents underestimate their children and limit their children's knowledge through "family-frendly" censorship nonsense at the expense of intellectual growth, too. As a result, many children up with average I.Q's because society bullies them into being ordinary pawns of parents or government authorities. It is idiocracy. It is why geniuses and freethinkers are rare.

Watching television is not always detrimental to children's mental health. There are educational videos. Sometimes children learn quicker when they watch videos instead of reading. Not that I am against children reading books.

But I will say many parents are ignorantly flawed behind their pretentious attempts at keeping their children away from danger. Which this world was never meant to be safe completely despite what the delusionally optimistic people with fragile egos say.

Netflix will only dumb kids down. It is not a freethinking platform controlled by people interested in letting children think outside the box. Because it is an oligarch-owned platform controlled by profit-driven people only interested in showing formulaic shows that have predictable plots and political correctness without much intellectual depth. It's why independent writers who want to write shows that inspire unpredictable plots and unfiltered imagination are having a harder time finding jobs that pay well. Because America, China, the U.K, Australia, North Korea, and other countries have become a police dystopia with an increasing amount of dehumanizing censorship. They are controlled by cut-throat rulers who attack investigative journalists and human rights activists to keep a small group of people extremely wealthy during the pandemic. It's an oligarchy.

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