The issue is that they don’t. A lot of current issues can be traced to the legions of parents that don’t give a shit about their kids. While there certainly needs to be a conversation about where the line betweeen overreach needs to be drawn, it’s disingenous to try and use this idea that parents should just “be better” as an argument against legislation. The kids of good parents aren’t the ones who need additional protections online, it’s the ones with neglectful parents who are happy letting their kids have unlimited screentime as long as they don’t have to talk or interact with their child. Those kids deserve legislation protecting them online.
While there certainly needs to be a conversation about where the line betweeen overreach needs to be drawn
The overreach is when it starts affecting everyone. I.e. age verification laws. I don’t want nor should I have to give my ID to a third party just so I can make a social media account or to look at porn, thanks.
and that’s a fair request, same as any other request for anonymity and privacy. I’m not saying we should kill all online privacy for the sake of the children, and I’d honestly say you shouldn’t implicitly trust any legislature that says it’s doing it “for the children.” Again, there are real arguments to be made for both sides of the issue, and any legislature on the topic should ideally find a middle ground. My stance is purely that this article’s idea of “fuck it, it is the parent’s responsibility” is inherently flawed, and is about as valid a reason to oppose law as “for the children” is to support it.
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