Not My Words - but those of ‘The 🔗Jax’ - over on 🔗 LinkedIN
(Lightly edited to make sense in a blog post.)
“We should all do the right thing by and for our children - they are our future and deserve to be protected.”
💬 Jax Harrison
Keeping #CHILDREN - babies literally safe online should be #EVERYONE ’s priority. Sadly this causes so much damage - and I am so sad for the loss of this young boy 13 year old -Levi and for the family who lost him.
Maybe Australia has it right.
Children don’t have the wisdom or knowledge to know what is real and what isnt - or how to cope when things go wrong…
Parents are not sure how to explain it or talk to their children about it - the dangers of hashtag#chatbots and #sexbots and #sextortion to a child of 13years old. And not only that - because it is supposed to be safe for them to use the Apps. Is it awkward to tell your 13yr old these things? Yes, but now a more than necessary and urgent conversation to have.
Why? It is because of the consequences of lack of hashtag#safety parameters of private companies - who are larger than many nations - who are deciding the fate of our #CHILDREN and their futures - without the appropriate intervention and guidance from lawmakers and governments or even counsellors. Without full disclosure of what they are allowing.
Do you really think if there was a warning label like on a pack of cigarettes - every time you or your child logged in to the App - if there was a flashing for 30 seconds a warning ‼️ “Use of this app may expose children and others to harmful sextortion, potentially harmful relationship bots, cutting and self harm groups and challenges, radicalisation, bullying, and may cause severe anxiety, self harm and suicidal thoughts … everyone would be so keen on it - NO. Of course not - parents and teens would think twice.
And that’s the smallest step the companies could do. It would cost them nothing … just less children on their platform.
Instead they just take the risk and do nothing to make it better because it doesn’t cost that much to them.
The value of collecting our children’s data is worth more than that. Think about it. Read that again.
Somehow as a human society we are abdicating responsibility of the protection of our …
#childrensrights
#childrensminds
#mentalhealth
#hearts
… to private companies who have #profit first and #safeguarding second.
We cannot trust them to do the right thing - because “when a leopard shows you its spots you should believe them”.
Their actions tell you who they are.
#OnlineSafety prevents hashtag#OfflineHarms and companies like hashtag#Instagram hashtag#Meta can and should do better.
“We should all do the right thing by and for our children - they are our future and deserve to be protected.”
Governance and regulatory accountability and actions don’t hinder innovation they #savelives - our children’s lives.
#thefuturefound
#onlinesafety
#AI
#governance
#regulation
#policy
#children
#stopchildtraffic
#socialmedia
