Meaning 97% of parents are evaluating theoretical future based risks against real-world utility of entertainment, education and socialising, and choosing to opt for having it than not having. Presumably backed by decades of their own sample size n=1 data of "I used it, and it was mostly fine for me the vast majority of the time".
Contrast that with what you're suggesting. The data linked says that of the 3% of kids that don't have have internet access at home, only 2% of those don't have it for security and privacy reasons.
Policy makers have to make policy that's going to work for real people. Your ideas and suggestions read more like that physicist joke that ends in the punchline "I have a solution, but it will only work for spherical chickens in a vacuum".
> Meaning 97% of parents are evaluating theoretical future based risks against real-world utility of entertainment, education and socialising, and choosing to opt for having it than not having
right so the parents are making the decision and then you want a nanny state to look after the kids.
...implying all parents are always capable of making the correct decision at all times? Also, implying the state doesn't already do lots to look after the kids like say set the age they can drink, drive, buy tobacco, age of consent etc.
Guess we should just leave 100% of that up to the parents too? I don't imagine anything bad would happen in your perfect parents in a vacuum world, so we might as well.
yes, more centralised state control is exactly what we need. it's not like we have communities and neighbours that could step in - we all live in the middle of the forest after all.
Yeah... Yeah... my bad, I totally forgot about that. Get the community involved, makes perfect sense. Just send them to the Boy Scouts of America... Oh wait... oh shit... Oh that didn't turn out great. Never mind we'll just take em to church. Whoops... damn. Alright, well how about we put them in the local sports club. Shit.
Your super responsible community based approach just got your kids diddled hard.
