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It's 1PM. Do you know where your children are scrolling?
Adi Robertson
Maybe, argues longtime internet law scholar Danielle Citron, sometimes you shouldn't. We've got a slow holiday Thursday here at The Verge, so it's time for me to finally read this paper from early June about alternatives to the 'parental control model' of children's privacy online — a topic that's not going away any time soon.
The parental control model is a wolf in sheep's clothing. It is an empowering façade that leaves parents unable to protect children and undermines the intimate privacy that youth need to thrive. It is bad for parents, children, and parent-child relationships. And it is bad for the pursuit of equality.