[superkuh]

Or the parents. I wasn't aware the corporations were responsible for the raising of children.

That said, I'm with you on reducing the abstraction of liability that is the purpose of corporations. I just don't think parents not parenting is the reason to do it. I also don't really think parents should be thrown in prison and families destroyed. The use of violent force in this situation, against the CEOs or the parents, is entirely uncalled for and does more real damage than the "problem".

[hrimfaxi]

Our parents had problems figuring out how to program the time on the VCR. Technology advances faster than parents can keep up.

If someone was selling drugs on the street on the way to school, would we be blaming parents who let their kids walk to school that they should parent better, or would we deal with the drug dealer?

[zeroCalories]

Oh yeah, I remember 20 years ago when the Internet was fine for a child to brows unsupervised.

[hrimfaxi]

If you think the internet today is anything like it was 20 years ago, I don't know what to tell you

[fragmede]

If we think a drug dealer on the way to school is a good analogy, I have to ask; many someones went into a school with guns and shot children. How did we deal with that?

[dylan604]

> How did we deal with that?

We haven't. It keeps happening. Now what?

[jswelker]

I agree 100%, but it is fair to point out there is really no precedent for the level of involvement and knowledge and handholding it takes for a parent to navigate the digital world. Yes parents are widely failing, but it should be no surprise.

[quantified]

Parents understand that they cannot be the sole arbiter of everything for their children. Locking down your children's inputs is not fully realistic. If you remember being a child you remember circumventing your parents at every turn.

[Ajedi32]

And so instead we should expect corporations to fill that role?

[quantified]

I'm not sure that's implied anywhere. There are many non-parental roles to be filled in society that should steer harm away feom children. Priests for example. Teachers and librarians, nurses, bus drivers, shopkeepers, and so on.

[superkuh]

Yes. At the tail end of my comment I stated that calls for violence (forced imprisonment) against either CEO (like original poster in this thread) or parents (like me, as satire) for not sanitizing a child's entire life is wrong. Both are wrong. There isn't even a problem here. Certainly not one that requires the use of force to deprive humans of their volition.