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What if the parent is not responsible?

Should society help the child, by making it more difficult for them to access harmful material, in the same way we age verify alcohol?

What if the parent is responsible, but finds themselves in a situation where they don't have the time/ability to either educate or set up robust controls? Should we make their responsibilities easier?

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Instead of controlling the children, we should control the source. Perhaps we should ban harmful content from the internet. Not the government. But we, as users, need content to be reviewed by moderators. People should decide what is harmful. I’m sure we all know what is harmful, not just for children. Psychology shows us what goes on in an adult’s brain, it is exactly the same as what goes on in a child’s brain.

With this line of reasoning you can just take away any agency from individuals and put it into the hands of the state, which leads to totalitarianism.

Public policy seems tricky if we must take every line of reasoning to its extreme.

The idea that the state should decide which way of parenting is responsible is extreme.

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