Parents do not use parental controls on Facebook and Instagram, according to Meta’s Nick Clegg, with adults failing to embrace the 50 child safety tools the company has introduced in recent years.So what to do, what to do? Well, it's obvious, isn't it? Don't give them the choice, impose it.
Regulatory pressure is building on tech companies to protect children from harmful content, with the Australian government announcing plans this week to ban younger teenagers from accessing social media. Speaking at an event hosted by Chatham House in London, Clegg said parents were not using controls that allowed them to set time limits and schedule viewing breaks. “One of the things we do find … is that even when we build these controls, parents don’t use them,” he said. “So we have a bit of a behavioural issue, which is: we as an engineering company might build these things, and then we say at events like this: ‘Oh, we’ve given parents choices to restrict the amount of time kids are [online]’ – parents don’t use it.”
Perhaps they don't accept that it's the disaster they are being told that it is? Perhaps they are just lazy?
Andy Burrows, the chief executive of the Molly Rose Foundation, a charity set up by Russell’s family, said: “Nick Clegg would do a service to children’s safety by stopping passing the buck and starting to take responsibility for the preventable harm caused by Meta’s choices.”
Why is it his responsibilty? They aren't his children. They aren't your children either..
"Parents don’t use it"
ReplyDeleteBecause most parents have no idea when it comes to tech stuff. And even if they did the chances are the children would know how to reverse the settings...
Two things, 1) as microdave says most parents don't know about such things - this is the first I have heard about them. 2) the owners of the sites need to publish the information and make that info readily available.
ReplyDeleteWhen those two things are made known it then becomes the parents responsibility to use them or not. Having someone unrelated making the decision just shows how far we are round the Tytler cycle.
Cleggie doing what he is paid for. Very well for, for a failed friend of Dave.
ReplyDeleteSpouting the company line.
He really is a Slithy Tove.
Parents who are not tech savvy could stop their children using social media if they think it adversely affects them (or actually care). That doesn't require the companies or the government to do anything.
ReplyDelete"Because most parents have no idea when it comes to tech stuff. "
ReplyDeleteIt's really not that complicated, but the chances the kiddies could run rings around you aren't small...
"Having someone unrelated making the decision just shows how far we are round the Tytler cycle."
Indeed! On this, as on so many things.
"Cleggie doing what he is paid for. Very well for, for a failed friend of Dave."
Are there any successful ones?