Should kids be allowed to use the internet?

No, you should atleast be 16 years old (and thats being generous) to be be allowed to use the internet.
 
I had free range of the internet in the 2000’s from the age of 11 or so. Probably not my parents’ greatest idea looking back. To be fair, internet safety for children wasn’t super well understood then. I stumbled on to porn (including sites like 2 Girls 1 Cup) pretty young. I also had creepy men messaging me. Thankfully I had enough sense not to do anything too reckless. We had basic online safety lessons in school. It didn’t scar me but it could for another child. I mostly played flash games and posted on age appropriate forums.
 
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I want to say no, but the internet was invaluable to me as a young teen. Maybe the internet was safer in the early/mid 2000s, but it's not anymore.

I think it's a yes, but with a lot of caveats, like parental supervision, limited website allowance, and only on a desktop.
I'd argue the internet was just as bad back then. We just were encouraged to practice basic opsec. Seems like the same people that shat themselves over chatrooms with usernames existing did a 180 the second they figured out how to use Facebook. Suddenly it's fine to overshare because a site created by an android said so.

Those kid friendly sites from back then were probably crawling with pedos. Mods were less likely to be trannies, though, so any obvious ones got banned.
 
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You should obviously teach your kids how to use tech, it's a necessity to the modern world. But there should be restrictions and training wheels, just like with anything.

A dumb phone with all numbers blocked except for yours and whatever other kids they know and family members like grandparents. A stationary desktop in a conspicuous area that runs through a pi server and has fifty million different proxies and firewalls. Teach them more about certain precautions and so on as they get older. Have to get a smart phone with their own money if they want to once they get past an appropriate age.

I don't think these are unreasonable. Don't listen to retarded doomers that go "buh uh someone's gonna show em the pron in class". Because it's about levels of exposure and also about how they're being raised to know otherwise. I don't know why basic concepts like "start at age appropriate time and increase knowledge and responsibility with it from there" can't be applied to tech/internet usage. I think people are just projecting their own phone/computer addictions and knee jerk reacting to the mere idea of moderation in any form whatsoever.
 
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Hell no, I had unrestricted access to the internet, shit was terrible looking back. If I ever have a kid they're not going to have free-reign access until at least 15-16.
 
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"buh uh someone's gonna show em the pron in class".
I mean, they actually will, though. I still remember friends that would download clips onto their flip phones, back in the day, and show them off to everyone. I never even knew a man could fit his whole head up a vagina until they showed me.
 
I mean, they actually will, though. I still remember friends that would download clips onto their flip phones, back in the day, and show them off to everyone. I never even knew a man could fit his whole head up a vagina until they showed me.
I'm speaking against that as an argument as to why you should try to restrict access under your own roof, not that it won't happen.
 
What if a kid has no other socializing outlet? It's easy to tell a kid to socialize with other kids, but what about the kids who live in rural areas, with no way to visit anyone, outside of their school?
And, you know, the fact that most parents in first world countries don't really let their kids go outside on their own anymore. School being a kid's only social pond is not ideal, specially if we're talking about the american-style education system with it's social hierarchies and ostracization that make the Kiwifarms look like a cute puppy pictures site, and which have basically become incel school shooter and criminal nigger manufacturing plants. What are they supposed to do if they can't go explore real life, can't explore the internet, and they suck at socializing in school? Stare at a wall all day? I'd very much prefer that most teens socialized irl instead, but we're apparently past that world now. The internet, even in it's shitty consolidated current state, can really be a window to the world for a lot of kids in this surprisingly common situation. It certainly was for me in the late 2000's and early 2010's.
 
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Unlike most people here, I'd actually say yes, because I don't want to force a child of mine to be a social outcast. I always believe in good parenting first.

Look at me for example, while I'm not the most extrovert person out there, I can still socialize normally, have a job and do well in school/college. And all my parents had to teach was: "internet strangers aren't your friends" and "never look at naked women online".

Of course not every kid is the same as me, but I fail to see how a well-behaved kid and a rebel kid need the same set of restrictions. If your kid is wasting too much time in front of the computer or they are doing something they shouldn't do on the internet, then yeah, restrict their social media access or whatever, but if not, then I don't see why my son/daughter shouldn't message their school friends on watch silly YouTube/Tiktok videos.

While I do understand that it's hard to catch your child being groomed by discord mods (if that were to happen), I also believe that's just the hardships of being a mother or father in general. Unless you make your kid never leave the house and cut all his forms of outside communication, they're almost 100% guaranteed to bear witness the worst aspects of humanity in someway or the other.

Sometimes you can't even trust your kid to be left alone with your own blood family, let alone leave them at their school, church, hobby group like sports or just any group in general.
 
Children should stay away from the internet, they make it dumber.
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Good point
Women should stop shaving their bushes
It's something that spread through porn and the Fr*nch.

I mean, they actually will, though. I still remember friends that would download clips onto their flip phones, back in the day, and show them off to everyone. I never even knew a man could fit his whole head up a vagina until they showed me.
Wait, can they really? I never gave it any thought. Baby heads fit, but they're babies...
 
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I'm speaking against that as an argument as to why you should try to restrict access under your own roof, not that it won't happen.
Late, but I understand that. It's just that the argument is founded in reality and it very much leads to unhealthy addictions in young men (maybe women, who knows) who are barely coping with their raging hormones, as it is. It's not something I'm just keen to shrug off, as restricting access does ensure that, at least at your own home, they won't be looking at it.

However, the reality is that they'll just look at it at school or stay at that friend's house, every so often, and look at it there. Better to let them have the access and monitor them, in the end, either way.
 
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