Frankly, as a parent, that's not the content I think my kids should be watching but it's also not the content that I'm interested in banning. The content I'm i

Frankly, as a parent, that's not the content I think my kids should be watching but it's also not the content that I'm interested in banning. The content I'm interested in banning is the content that I know (because I've literally worked for the companies making it and seen the sausage made in real time) is intentionally geared to drive user engagement and foster addiction. Loot boxes. Online gambling. Microtransactions. Constant app notifications. Updates from your "friends" that your friends didn't actually make. Advertising. Content designed to drive fear of missing out. Content designed to drive sales. Content to influence behavior through fear, jealousy, and anger. Endlessly scrolling feeds of tiktok, facebook, instagram, reddit, etc. ---- Content like unfiltered violence exists, but it doesn't have the same reach and hold as content that is relentlessly pushed because it makes someone money. But the content making people money is fucking insidious, because it's "palatable" to most people at first glance, but it reduces my children to walking wallets. It plays on their brains during formative years in ways that are very close to straight up abuse. It is like religious indoctrination, but for all the negative aspects of humanity, amped up with a solid understanding of statistics, human behavior, and brain chemistry - All to make my children (and myself and my peers, family, parents, society at large) into money making drones for a corporation. I think that content is where I find banning appropriate. It's not about the message in that content. Kids should be free to learn material that interests them even if it's dark, depressing, violent, or sexual (ideally with an adult they can discuss it with). Kids should not be free to be robbed in broad daylight, hooked on addictive drugs, or trained like monkeys in a skinner box to give companies money for dopamine.