I understand why some people are against parents using parental controls / monitoring their kids internet usage closely, but I say this as someone who’s parents invaded my privacy as a kid to an outrageous extent: non-abusive internet monitoring exists and should be encouraged.

I am very against parents obsessively monitoring their kids / tracking everything they do, but leaving young kids on the internet entirely unsupervised without any idea what they’re doing isn’t good. It’s a parents responsibility to keep their kids safe offline and on.

Everyone laughs about Stranger Danger online but there have been real instances of predators luring kids away from their homes online and the parents not realizing their child has been actively groomed until they’ve snuck out of the house.

There’s SO many predators online. There’s a massively active MAP community on twitter alone. There was a huge scandal on YouTube about traumatizing videos disguised as kids content. There’s so many dangerous things kids can unknowingly fall into and parents need to protect them.

Not to mention really young kids don’t need easy access to violent gore or trauma livestreams. I don’t care if you saw the Jar Video really young and were fine.

Don’t find parents talking about setting up parental controls on their kids devices and berating them over it, because while your ( and my ) trauma about having your privacy invaded, esp if you’re queer, is valid your parents behavior is not applicable to all parents*

*Obviously, if the parent is being inappropriate about it you should try to talk them out of it, but parents setting up child locks so their 6 year old kids can’t have easy access to violent porn and gore livestreams isn’t a bad thing.