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@remote_orb @futurebird I think most of the kids that are successfully targeted tend to lack this type of parenting.
You shouldn't have to watch them all the time or control their behavior. This issue is bigger than individual parenting. We need real communities and accountability for companies (and individual bad actors).
Instead you're mostly abandoned to whatever you as a parent can muster for the duration of your time as one. And, it shouldn't be that way.
@futurebird The way you describe it made something click for me that hadn't before...
There's this whole mythos around Gen X as latchkey kids who ferally roamed their world. That's been online spaces for those that came after for a number of reasons.
But, the problem is the same as it was then in terms of people who are supposed to be responsible for children being too overworked or too unengaged and offloading kids into environments they play in and others exploit them in.