Am I an unfit parent if I don’t police the web for my child? | Zoe Williams

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New UK legislation to control the wild west of the digital world is overdue, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

“No one in the world has done this before,” Jeremy Wright, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, said of the government’s newly launched internet regulations. “And it’s important that we get it right.” Perhaps because Wright has kept a low profile in the recent, psychedelic months of government, it sounded like the first mature and reasonable thing I had heard from a minister in a long time.

 

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Yes.

Yes, definitely. At least learn to use basic parental guidence settings. Would you let your kid bring snuff mags home to read?

YES! You're the parent, it's your responsibility, not the state!

Yes it is the parents duty to protect children from the bad things on the internet, not the States

You're an unfit parent period. If you preach to your poor child the same nonsense and rubbish you write on a daily basis then it's child abuse.

Yes

Yes, don’t buy them a smart phone until they’re a young adult and keep the computer in the living room where you can see it obviously.

Maybe instead of policing internet content you should be policing the access to the internet, give them only a limited time until you think they know not to be on the net all the time.

Yes.

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