Is the internet fully integrated with daily life? Or is Microsoft, Facebook, and socia media integrated with daily life?
Practically, there's no difference between these two for 99% of people, which is the greatest concern for the topic at hand.
This is especially true of the youth. The concept of people going and hanging out together at a place is largely dead and if you want to be social as a child you have to be on groomcord, snapchat, instagram, or any other of theses shit hole websites. Like yes, you technically could avoid it but have fun being a pariah. God forbid if you're socially maladjusted too like many of these people are, then you'll be really isolated at that point.
People can't understand what they don't know, and 90% of Americans don't even know what the fuck /pol/ is. When they celebrate banning porn, they really think they're getting to the source - they really think kids can't then easily access it anymore without hacking or something.
I agree, but given that so much tragedy has come out of more obscure parts of the internet, it is 100% the fault of parents for not caring about the reasons why these things happen. These are fully functional adults who just refuse to understand the world around them and its a total moral failing of our society that parents who do this aren't bullied relentlessly for being stupid.
We do it to people who don't understand taxes, we do it to people who don't understand cars, we do it to people who can't work out insurance. The fact that the modern parent is poorly equipped to deal with the internet and is coddled in that ignorance is nothing short of disgusting. The best action is education, but when these people don't want to listen, personal responsibility for the neglect of their own child is the only pragmatic and fair solution.
The sympathy ends when the bloodshed begins, and we're far into the bloodshed.
I don't think I could even protect a child if I didn't have that prior experience
I agree and think that the only sane option thus is for it to be the moral norm to prohibit internet access entirely for anyone below the age of 16 generally. This doesn't mean no access to computers or anything, its just that those computers do not need advanced networking abilities.
I always hear retards whine that internet access is necessary so children can "learn how to use a computer!", this is stupid and is a technologically illiterate take since you can operate most computers just fine without networking ability so long as you have local software, media, and other tools. Even if you want networking, there's no reason that it needs to go anywhere past the local area network.
If the youth needs some kind of information, a trusted adult can just provide it. Have a local copy of Wikipedia set up for your kid or have some movies downloaded. If they want to play minecraft, invite your friends over and play it over LAN. Computer knowledge doesn't necessitate putting your child in front of the entire world for no reason.
