Policies and Laws are Not Substitutes for Good Parenting
There is a popular trend to regulate social media and AI platforms over concerns about the impact on children. Several laws are being developed across the US with heavy input from the tech industry. While parents have a responsibility to protect their children, questions arise about how much control is appropriate. Tools such as content filters, usage monitoring apps, and time limits can help ensure children are reasonably safe online.
The problem is that these tools are only effective when coupled with good parenting - spending time with children to instill in them a strong sense of morals and the ability to recognize right from wrong. Tools, policies, and laws are ineffective when parents fail to educate and reinforce moral beliefs in their children
The development of additional online safety laws will lead to increased censorship, privacy, and security risks while failing to protect children.
Related post from the EFF (although it fails to recognize the VPN risk):
I personally believe the trend of creating additional online safety laws is a veiled effort to eventually ban VPNs and force the adoption of validated digital identities.
This will likely start by using age verification for accessing VPNs. When this effort fails we'll see additional laws created to restrict the use of VPNs for only businesses.
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