While some parents will advocate for this bullshit (and to them i’d answer the same as you: how about you raise your kids?), when it comes from politicians the goal is control and censorship, for which Think of the children!™ is the usual excuse.
Indeed, politicians do love to claim power and control wherever they can and kids are a handy excuse often enough.
As to the parents, at least in the USA my take is that so many are overwhelmed with how to handle it that if you get someone in power saying “we will make the internet safe for you, no effort needed” they jump all over it.
I’m in my 40’s and none of the things out there on the web that kids are doing even existed when I was their age, so there are plenty of people who are really the first generation to be sorting out how to deal with this stuff for our kids. Given my work I’m better equiped than most, but it’s still possible to get caught off guard
While some parents will advocate for this bullshit (and to them i’d answer the same as you: how about you raise your kids?), when it comes from politicians the goal is control and censorship, for which Think of the children!™ is the usual excuse.
Indeed, politicians do love to claim power and control wherever they can and kids are a handy excuse often enough.
As to the parents, at least in the USA my take is that so many are overwhelmed with how to handle it that if you get someone in power saying “we will make the internet safe for you, no effort needed” they jump all over it.
I’m in my 40’s and none of the things out there on the web that kids are doing even existed when I was their age, so there are plenty of people who are really the first generation to be sorting out how to deal with this stuff for our kids. Given my work I’m better equiped than most, but it’s still possible to get caught off guard