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Want to keep your kids safe online? First, take them on the Digital Black Box Tour
Today is Safer Internet Day – a good time to give your child a guided tour of your own digital device, showing what you do on it and talking through the choices you make.
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Besides parents giving children the Digital Black Box Tour, invite your children to reciprocate by having them show you around their devices.
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The hall was thick with tension as Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg apologised to parents who had lost their children to social media-related tragedies during the recent United States congressional hearing on alleged online harms to children.
Social media posts on the apology condemned Mr Zuckerberg and Big Tech companies for their role in this sad state of affairs. But there were others who criticised the parents present at the hearing: “Don’t blame Big Tech for your bad parenting” or “They’re your kids, why didn’t you watch them?”
