• Tervell [he/him]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    I'm not sure kids (and regular non-tech-savvy people in general) even really "browse" the internet in this fashion anymore - they just stick to a small set of sites (and apps on their phones), like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other big platforms like that, and very rarely go outside of them. So you have filters in the sense that these platforms are ostensibly moderated, but a lot of parents don't really pay much attention, which is how you get various incidents where kids are left to just fuck around on their phones and tablets with no supervision for hours, and end up spending hundreds of dollars on microtransactions in some shitty mobile game, without understanding what they're doing.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      If you know what you're doing you can lock down a phone's ability to do anything without a parent's password - but then again if the kid knows what they're doing they can factory reset the phone and disable that stuff.