Zuckerberg and the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica crisis, recently with TikTok boss Shou Zi Chew – and then let’s not even get started with Elon Musk’s drastic and parental controls have been emerging at an increasing rate to help combat the issues of online safety. That is combined with the next generation of parents having grown up with the internet themselves, and are therefore wise to its dangers and preparing the next generation to cope with them. Jenny Radesky, who studies the intersections of child development, parenting and technology at the controversial takeover of Twitter. Safety techniques and tools like University of Michigan, takes issue with the phrase ‘parental controls’ itself in an interview for a blog by Mozilla. 1 “Parental mediation is a better term, parental engagement is another – and probably also better because it implies meaningful discussion or involvement to help kids navigate media, rather than using controlling or restricting approaches,” she explains. So, how can you mediate as a parent? And what tech exists to support you?
DON’T GET CAUGHT IN THE DARK WEB
The dark web remains the world wide web, but featuring content that exists on darknets: overlay networks that use the internet but require specific software, configurations or authorisation to access. Using the dark web, private computer networks can conduct business anonymously, which is why so much of its activity is illegal.
This forms a small portion of the deep web, meaning the two are often confused. A December 2014 study by Gareth Owen from the University of Portsmouth found that the most hosted type of content was child pornography, followed by black markets. After that were botnet operations, whistleblowing, bitcoin, fraud and mail order services.
SO, HOW CAN YOU MEDIATE AS A PARENT? AND WHAT TECHNOLOGY EXISTS TO SUPPORT YOU?
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