We never needed governments to step in and de-anonymize the internet in order to protect children.
What we needed was education - 26 years ago - about responsible technology use and internet behavior. We needed parents to learn and understand what their children were doing with their tech and teach, monitor, and discipline. Not one class about "being nice on the internet". Year after year education about responsible use of technology.
We can build a better internet for tomorrow by starting today - by putting internet behavior and responsible technology use classes in every school, at every level. To understand how to behave, how to respect others, how to use digital devices responsibly, how to identify threats, scams and dangers. To spot misinformation and think for themselves. To stop spending hours and hours on infinite scroll applications that devour and degrade their attention spans and ability to process and create memories.
But that guidance needs to teach the why, not just tell us "this is bad!" Children should understand the costs of spending their lives in front of a screen just as they learn the dangers of smoking or why it's important to try to eat healthy foods. Teenagers should be guided and taught to make decisions about their activities for themselves and understand why social media is terrible for mental health, and why, as they become adults and learn to parent, they should monitor their own children's activities and share what they've learned with their own children. To learn to be there when their kids have questions, to understand before judging.
New parents need to understand how crucial it is not to just slap their kids in front of their phones to occupy them when they're busy. They need to understand when it's appropriate to set children up with different accounts of their own, and how to monitor their usage and ensure healthy limits. We need to rebuild the spaces in the Internet that are meant to be safe for children, giving them a place to safely express themselves and learn.
And we need to do this as a society, so we can improve the coming generations together.
When the internet was born, our governments failed to build the systems to help society learn it's responsible use. We let companies take over and social media run rampant and build worse and worse things that manipulated our base instincts, and now we're seeing the consequences of two decades of that.
We have to do better. We CAN do better.
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