Say you were a guardian or parent and get to decide when a child can get a phone or use a computer and get internet with it. If you wish you can also install software and change router settings to what you see fit.

Some parents decide to forbid the internet completely, others are more relaxed. Some go the helicopter route, and some do not care whatsoever what their kid does online.

What is your policy on letting a child use the internet?

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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    1 day ago

    Isn’t this how us kids in the 1990’s and 2000s grew up? (Minus the phone because we didn’t have them, or just a flip phone)

    Calling it draconian to not be able to stay up all night on the internet sounds kind of like an iPad kid as a teenager lol

    • lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Yep. And even then, our desktop computer was upstairs - which was out of the way, nothing up there except my sister’s bedroom and a living room that wasn’t really used - so arguably that was too isolated lol. We weren’t allowed laptops until we finished high school! Even my friend who did have a laptop wasn’t allowed it in her bedroom.

      The internet was also restricted to go off at 9pm because I was staying up on msn and Myspace all night otherwise 😅