It should be the parents’ responsibility to parent their children. And the government’s responsibility to step in when the parents are abusive or neglectful.
From UNICEF’s Children’s Version/TLDR the Convention on the Rights of the Child:
- Best interests of the child
When adults make decisions, they should think about how their decisions will affect children. All adults should do what is best for children. Governments should make sure children are protected and looked after by their parents, or by other people when this is needed. Governments should make sure that people and places responsible for looking after children are doing a good job.
- Family guidance as children develop
Governments should let families and communities guide their children so that, as they grow up, they learn to use their rights in the best way. The more children grow, the less guidance they will need.
(emphasis mine)
- Protection from violence
Governments must protect children from violence, abuse and being neglected by anyone who looks after them.
This, plus all the rights that state that the default should be children being raised by their families, means what you are saying is literal international law everywhere except the US (though it’s a application is still… frankly non existent in most of the world)
And here with are with much of both the US and Europe enacting privacy-invading age verification laws instead of letting parents raise their kids.
Parents are shit at raising children.
Both solutions are ass.
That doesn’t really work in a world where the Internet exists. Specially in low-income or single-parent households.
All these laws when you can just Child Safety Settings > Block List
