>I get the impression that this problem happens a lot less frequently than social media and our personal echo chambers would have us believe. You don't need mo

>I get the impression that this problem happens a lot less frequently than social media and our personal echo chambers would have us believe. You don't need modern technology for that; the 1980s panic over child abductions (which was the precipitating event for this state of affairs) was overblown so hard that reasonable parents are far more at risk of their children being abducted and harassed by the State than they ever were at random. To claim social media is a root cause is incorrect, though technology does empower the hysterical and exacerbates their damage in other ways. Because children aren't people, there's no human/legal rights concerns generated by taking away their right to free movement and quiet enjoyment of property (unlike, say, mass violence with a weapon vs. the human right to those weapons)- anything is fair game when it comes to public safety, after all. Some US states have slowly been passing anti-hysterics laws with respect to movement and enjoyment of property rights for children (as in, not getting abducted off their front lawn or walking down the street by cOnCeRnEd PaReNtS), but it's very far from universal. But the fear of State violence [inherently at gunpoint] is still there in most of the world, and I understand the non-hysterical holding back out of fear, conflating legality and general don't-rock-the-boat Milgram-type obediance with morality, etc.... even though it's slowly killing their kids.