There is no civilization when basic values are missing. Either people are dignified or beasts, and those compromises are only for beasts. The dignified will not live tracked, especially if potentially by the beasts: that remains totally strict. Outside that, you only have a veneer of civilization.
> the future is at stake here
The present and the future are at stake when somebody thinks that access to culture must be forbidden to those in formative years.
> child has been adequately protected from these processes in my lifetime
Children who have been raised properly are protected from those processes. Children who have been raised properly do not consume trash, and will recognize and seek good mental food - I witness that. People who have been raised properly avoid addictive behaviour.