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You're very much overestimating the average persons knowledge or ability to care about the internet beyond their relatively narrow use of it. It's hard to think critically about things that one takes for granted, and non-tech people frequently just take tech for granted. Tech people frequently do the same thing and appear completely out of touch with the average person's needs, but we call those "disruptive startups" instead.

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You don't need an in-depth knowledge of cars to teach your kids how to drive a car.

Likewise, you don't need an in-depth knowledge of computers to teach your kids how to handle the internet. Even moreso if you literally grew up with the thing, seeing both the absolute best and worst the internet has to offer.

That still seems like a number of assumptions to make about the general population that just doesn't ring true in my experience. I have quite a handful of friends that grew up on the internet same as me and yet are just not all that internet savvy. They just don't really care enough. It's not uncommon and it's not even bad, some folks just don't think about it.

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