| Information is a material concern Relationships are a concern (random people interacting with your child? Good Gosh!) Privacy is a huge concern for children, way more so than is afforded we regular netizens. "They're legally mandating you to give away your child's personal info " - no they are not, they're mandating age requirements, which is a separate thing. Snowden did not bring up age restrictions. "instead of you making those decisions for your child." I'm sorry but today the choice is not by parents, the point of the age restrictions is so that parents ultimately can have a choice (they and provide access by their own accounts). The 'all or nothing' issue of the internet is a big deal - parents don't really have a choice. These are mostly ideological and rhetorical arguments, not grounded in pragmatism. The pragmatic concern is 'abuse of control' (aka the 'general' Snowden argument), which is real, but can also be avoided if they do it right. Granted, I don't have a lot of faith that they will do it well. |