If I may interject here slightly. As a father myself, what I noticed is that quite a lot of parents are under the impression that education happens only in school and after school clubs. Very few parents spend the required TIME to educate their children and explain to them the responsibility and dangers of the internet.
This takes us back to a bit of a catch 22. If the parents are not doing much, then the govt may feel like it's time to bring in some regulation to direct things a bit. Again, as a parent I prefer to educate my own kids, and to make TIME for this, rather than let the government and any other vendors out there have a go at it. As a techie, I do enforce all sorts of filters and limits (and I agree that it can be a challenge to get it right) but I also prefer to give the kids a bit of a choice to they can understand what not to do as an exercise for later on when I will not be able to enforce those limits. Also, seeing as the title is Parental Controls, I take it as my responsibility as a parent first and foremost to make sure that what the child does and sees on the internet is appropriate. Catalin On 22/04/2019, 23:33, "uknof on behalf of Scott Weeks" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: --- [email protected] wrote: From: Bill <[email protected]> We don’t need more rules and regulation we need more education. ------------------------------------------------ Yes! And this is where the gov't can help. They could create public service announcements, work groups, etc to reach out to the communities and help them to help their kids. scott
