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"We do not allow our children to have their own computers to prevent the risk of them being radicalized by alt-right websites, so our kids share a laptop that we monitor and control access to."

Is monitoring your kids for alt-right radicalization propaganda the new monitoring your kids for porn? Is this a common thing parents are worried about now?

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It's a slate.com article, its aimed at neurotic millenials, there's not a lot of reason to think it's representative of most people.

...That's where you're wrong. I've been asked by my aunt to narc on the activity of their little girl whose computer I set up. This is disturbingly common to the point I consider it a public service to help kids find some private space to experiment and express themselves to help figure out who they are.

Amazingly, this makes you the first person kids who know you won't make a big deal of things reach out to.

> Is monitoring your kids for alt-right radicalization propaganda the new monitoring your kids for porn?

This seems even worse. More like reading their diary than snooping for pornographic magazines.

Super creepy and I cannot help but see a parallel to the teenager's list. Cannot leave them alone, keeps tabs on everyone and all they might do wrong.

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