Parents should surveil their kids 24/7?
It feels like common sense is a dying thing, could it be because we specialize further and further? I "can't cook" for example.
If someone sells alcohol to a minor they can be sued and will likely be in trouble if the child is harmed. It is the seller's responsibility to make sure they don't and it wouldn't enough to have a sign saying "please don't buy if you are a minor". They must actively check. Same thing with firearms. Even the (adult) entertainment industry works like that.
Here too tiktok "sold" a product to some kids, and these kids were harmed. Consequently they have some responsibility over that. Why should the IT industry get away with practice that would not be accepted in any other industry?
The role of parents is not to keep their kids safe at all costs. If it were then just keeping children locked up until their majority would be optimal parenting. Instead we as a society should thrive to make the world safe for those kids rather than just pretend it's the exclusive responsibility of their parents.
Parents login to devices and give them to their kids, the vast majority do not setup child profiles or enable restrictions.
"Teaching common sense" sounds very effective for young children with developing minds notorious for making terrible decisions. If only those parents had thought of it sooner.
I'm not saying TikTok is right in promoting harmful things, it's like the town square lunatic on steroids, but at the end of the day kids are going to be exposed to stupid shit through all their life (as you say) so if it's not TikTok it's something else, teach your kids not to choke themselves to death intentionally.
Children shouldn't have unrestricted internet access until at least 13 years old.
Same goes for getting drafted, owning guns, aborting fetuses, and driving cars.
A think is wrong one night and because fine the next morning. It’s kind of like the Ship of Theseus.
Not that I use the MPAA as any sort of authority on parenting but rated R movies are typically prohibited by unaccompanied kids under 18. The internet is way worse than any rated r movie. It’s rated XXX to use the MPAA’s metric.