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Treating users like adults and allowing them full control over setting system capability and app launch restrictions on devices (and even implementing fully optional, widely blocking restrictions as "parental safety options") was the industry taking it seriously. You considering the freedom of choice to the user as disastrous and the lack of heavily restricted lockdowns by default as "refusal to take concerns seriously" is just a reflection on your attitudes about other people, not any real argument for improving privacy or safety. You ARE a morally panicked maniac if your only grossly offensive things you want to keep pretending are horrifying examples have absolutely nothing to do with the invasion of privacy of children and more to do with puritanical outrage on children accessing adult material.

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> implementing fully optional, widely blocking restrictions as "parental safety options") was the industry taking it seriously

The myriad of settings, accessed differently on every site or service, that everyone needs to be aware of, and actively fight dysfunctional defaults and frequent "helpful" resets after updates, are not the solution parents or anyone else are looking for.

Why are the defaults set to favor the company, in a way that makes them real customer/user-targeted security holes that people have to play endless wack-a-mole to secure themselves?

That is industry taking plausible deniability and the monetizing potential of parasitical behavior at scale "seriously" indeed.

Except parents not being trained to really use it unless they look for it specifically.

Yes, a parents attention is a limited and valuable resource. It is a parents job to monitor the environment for dangers to their children. Not to neuter the entire adult world to make it pseudosafe for kids.

It's less about neutering, and more about diet.

Junk food and processed sugar creates dietary based ADHD kids.

One's information diet also changes how the brain develops, that's not a pseudo threat.

I sense some trepidation around not having unfettered access to swim in the whole ocean as a child with more and more sharks and angel fish floating around.

The environment to monitor is increasingly digital, not just in person. See my note above about parents who think their kids are safe at home, when they're letting the entire unfiltered world into their kids devices, eyes, minds without context.

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