• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    True point.

    My IT setup to get control of my daughter’s not-yet-rocketed-addiction is: screentime from Apple (that can be circumvented), seperated wifi for teens with on/off times (still they can use mobile network), blocked ip‘s for insta & tiktok at router level (still not all IPs in there), and a hacker-style tool called Firewalla to monitor and control their traffic with porn, youth filter-block ability (also in the router, but not sure how well this works at eg youtube)

    For this setup you need some steps beyond standard IT knowhow. And still it’s only 95%. Some day they find how to get through the little holes.

    Oh, this effort for 3-4 hrs screen time a day including podcasts and whatsapp.

    Next step will be to separate devices. She wants a new phone for birthday. Then we put Spotify for the podcasts on the old phone and block everything else. The new phone for the rest with even more reduced screen time.

    • Richard
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      -255 months ago

      Wow, this sounds really dystopian. You monitor the porn that your daughters are watching? Then you’re an absolute nut job and maybe you should be the one who should have their technology access regulated.

      • @[email protected]
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        5 months ago

        She is under 12! Start thinking before you shout.

        And btw it’s not monitor porn but porn filter

      • kux
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        105 months ago

        dystopia is when you limit your child’s exposure to pornography. wtf

      • JackGreenEarth
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        -115 months ago

        Yup, I’m disappointed, but most people seem to treat kids as subhuman, not needing the basic right privacy and freedom that they want for adults so much.

        • @[email protected]
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          Ahh yes, we should let our 4 and 7 year old kids have unfettered 24-hour access to porn, gore, and combat footage or we are treating them as literal subhuman animals.

          Never change Lemmy.