The simplest parental control is just not giving your kid unrestricted internet access. It’s both cheaper and easier than the status quo.

I’m sorry, but if you don’t have a home computer in your living room for your kids homework, you haven’t put in any effort and I no longer care. Ideally nobody, anywhere, should care. You have to take actual steps. Very basic, easy steps.

Think about what you need technology for. To reach your kid, to do their homework. Okay. Now do you require 24/7 internet access on an arbitrary device for that? No. You can go to Walmart today and pick up a 20 dollar burner phone. But you didn’t, right? So do that first, analyze the landscape, and then I think there can be a conversation to be had.

Demanding a conversation or worse, a law, when the most basic steps have not been taken is frankly disrespectful. That’s how I view it, it’s a time wasting mechanism.

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inigyou 9 hours ago | parent [-]

How do you give someone restricted internet access? What steps do you take for that to happen?

	▲	preg_match 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You physically restrict the device, as you would a knife or any other item you deem dangerous. I wouldn’t give, say, a ten year old 24/7 access to a butcher knife. No, it’s in the kitchen. Does that 100% prevent bad things? No, but it’s obvious, cheap, and good enough that everybody stopped trying after that. If you have a computer in the living room, I can guarantee that the odds that your son or daughter is watching something bad will be very low. The great thing about these solutions is they require no complex machinery, either literally or politically. But if you look around, people just jump the gun past these solutions. Meaning, they’re not trying. Which, IMO, if you don’t care about your kids, obviously then I don’t either. Which is fine because as a parent that’s your right, and I support that right.