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As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (10 children)

As the internet gets scarier

How the fuck is the internet getting scarier? This isn't the random gore and porn filled, go to a forum and immediately get targeted by a sex-predator, internet that I grew up with. The internet is a corporate walled garden of mega services that feed disinformation and bullshit to people, but your odds of getting genuinely victimized as a child are so much lower than they used to be.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Those where more, how should I put it, 'visual' and 'tangible' threads. Now it's watch out or someone is aggregating all your infornation about you and will use it for some neferarious things...
Which I find is a much wider issue, but is also much more dificult to warn and protect.

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