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What happened to good parenting being a valid solution to a problem like that?
Kids will be kids. Good parenting makes a big difference but kids will end up seeing and seeking these things at some point.
And how can twitch prevent that? The parent can just block all of twitch, then whitelist vetted streamers.
This works if parents have the technical knowledge to do so. Otherwise it ends with the parents clutching their pearls or just having their ISP block Twitch outright on the router or something. Which might lead to the kids learning the technical skills to get around these blocks if they want to watch Twitch badly enough.
Kids learning to bypass security is a great start for learning technical skills. Inept school IT got a lot of kids started on their way to lucrative jobs.
Good parenting in the age of streaming platforms and social media is a frigging minefield. I’m not saying it should be easy, but it has entirely new challenges that didn’t exist for all of humanity before the internet. You can’t even ban your kids from the platforms to solve the problem because schools depend on YouTube for instruction, and work is done on Chromebooks that parents usually have no admin control over.
Again, not saying parents get a free pass, but the challenges are evident.
Tbh I recall watching a kugkrizat video talking about how the Internet is so enshitifiyd due to how we've all made a few midea platforms become the Internet town square. I think that is not only making everyone hostile to one another but it's also made parenting next to impossible on the web. Everywhere that there are people there are some edgy people as well. You can't really regulate anything without pissing a sizeable amount of the population off.
I had "good parenting" and I still did so much shit. Lol
Good parenting is not letting your children using twitch. Let’s be honest, the whole web is degenerate. You either have to curate absolutely every piece of content your child consumes or have to give them the skills to identify and turn off in appropriate content (which isn’t easy either)