Who Are Online, Recruited by Advertisers and 4 Years Old? Kidfluencers

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I'm expecting a lot of fuss in ten to fifteen years from now when the kids will be in age to realize they've been forced to work for their parents and exposed the Internet from their earliest childhood.

The parents may see that as a great way to make money now but surely this will lead to kids sueing their parents one after another. And if it's not for the violation their privacy and the fact they've been forced to work as kids, it will be for the money.

This would be awesome if it takes to fundamental rights. Forced labour, forced expropriation, social anxieties due to parental behaviour and over-exposure. A child has the basic right to be a child, but what is 'a child' if it's having fun at that moment (but reflects with difficulties). Imho these parents are monkey balls crazy, but I'm not into 'social'. So I'll run into problems when my 3 kids hit the 'social' age in a few years. But I feel in the clear, not exploiting them for money.

Children have "a basic right to be a child" because we live in prosperity. If we didn't, then we would be doing what our ancestors did: kids start helping out on the family farm when they're old enough to do any useful work.

This doesn't sit well with me.

As a community we're wanting to increase and change what the common persons expectation and perception of privacy is for our societies benefit.

On the other side of the spectrum we have parents who are using their children as a profit centre through advertising.

Whatever happened to kids not allowed to sign up until 13? The world moved too fast!

> As a result, children too young to make their own accounts on the platforms are being turned into tastemakers.

It still is. There are ways around these rules if you're greedy, as they've proven.

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