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Perhaps the parental anxiety is generational. We grew up with a media that was safe and regulated by the FCC. Parents are defenseless in the age of YouTube, at the mercy of tech titans reactive to bad PR. The moral panic is real even if the reasons to be aren’t always real.
Researchers conclude harm from “digital tech” on kids is not evident in aggregate data. But researchers also acknowledge that every kid is different and “indulgence” could be harmful. Striking balance btwn overreacting/negligence induces parental anxiety. scientificamerican.com/article/the-ki…
35 years ago parents were worried about illicit lyrics in music. (Tipper Gore vs Frank Zappa). Today, parents are worried about self-harm propagandists, pædos, nazis, flatearthers microtargeting our kids. Public pressure and debate is part of the process.
Tech and media savvy parents know that opting-out is a myth, the underlying deceptive practice of the duopoly that must be smashed as a #FederalPrivacyBill is debated in 2019. Draconian blocking of social media is a parent’s only true opt-out option. wsj.com/articles/faceb…
