I don’t see why mere exposure to anything through friends is a problem. That’s called growing up. The problem is when they find harmful stuff on their own in isolation and don’t have a social outlet for learning how to respond to it in a healthy way. Kids have always brought nude magazines onto the bus to show their friends, gory movies to sleepovers, etc.
Who cares? I’m right
I’ve witnessed this first hand. A classmate was laughing at a snuff video. He got instant karma.
Great article, relevant to this discussion:
Great article!
It addresses pretty much every point in this thread and I agree with most of it.
To me though, this:
Long-time readers know that I am deeply in favor of improving the overall level of tech literacy in society. I am very much on board with teaching parents what tools are out there to help them better raise their kids in today’s increasingly complex and integrated digital world (more on that in a moment). And obviously, parents who actually are negligent should be held accountable.
Is not related to this:
But again, to beat a dead horse, the numbers show that most parents are making an honest, good faith effort.
Most parents are making a good faith effort and do want the best for their kids, but it doesn’t mean parents are trying to improve their tech literacy. Again, most people don’t know the concept of an IP address.
When it comes to the cracks in digital parenting efforts that kids slip through, I believe that in most cases, the overwhelming majority of blame needs to be placed squarely on the shoulders of tech companies.
Tech education could be argued as the biggest issue here. Everybody is to “blame”. Society and our government (therefore all of us), parents, big techs, etc.
We don’t expect parents to be doctors and chemists to vet the safety of a cough medicine for their children, or biologists to pick safe food from the supermarket. We have laws requiring generally-available, over-the-counter products to be safe for most people when used as intended. Social media algorithms, however, are functioning exactly as intended when users “doomscroll.” It’s the digital equivalent of selling poison over the counter. So why then are we unrealistically expecting parents to be sysadmins to keep their kids safe online?
This is demonstrably false. If your friend thinks everything you buy at the grocery is safe to eat, they’re wrong. Quick examples (but there are SO MANY): processed food, or just plain red meat is linked with cancer.
Therefore the whole argument falls apart. Because you kind of are expected to check these things out. Because society mostly won’t do it for you.
Kind of depressing though.I know it’s heavy. I’m tired too 
This:
work full-time, in addition to cooking, commuting, errands, and trying to raise their kids across a variety of contexts like school, in-person activities, general safety and wellbeing, and more.
should normally be enough. Yet, here we are.
TL;DR, we’re all to blame, including parents and big techs. We live in a society afterall 
I think flatpak installs work without sudo privileges.
And since I prefer Flatpak anyway this should work out