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Parental controls on children’s tech devices are out of touch with child’s play (theconversation.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/parenting@lemmy.world

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The "protection of children" has been the cited reason for a lot of controversial laws and measures recently. A common response is that parents should use parental controls to manage that on their own instead of relying on the government to do it to everyone. I found this article interesting since it touched on how the existing tools aren't that good, and addressing that problem might be a better thing to focus on

Authors:

Sara M. Grimes | Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and Professor, McGill University

Riley McNair | PhD Student in Information Studies, University of Toronto

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[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Yeah the controls offered are god awful. I want to prevent my kid from accessing youtube on the nintendo switch. Nope. I want to block him from accessing youtube on the xbox. Nope. I want to block him from accessing youtube on the ipad. Kinda.

I just want to keep him from getting access to user-created content because it is terribly moderated and often explicitly paid for by rightwing shittards that are trying to poison our culture. Too bad. Guess he doesn't get to use those devices anymore.

[–] Tot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

We allow YouTube, but not without us present. We had a decent list of blocked channels, then went to edit it but that just cleared out the entire list. So much for usability.

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