Its been so painfully obvious this man’s been Putin’s bitch since 2016

He's been Russia's bitch since at least 1987.

Encroaching on privacy and hiding behind the idea of “protecting kids” as an excuse to take away from your liberty and private life is lazy.

Go ahead and point out where I said your liberty should be taken away. Using the internet is not an inherent right.

If you want to protect your child from what they might find on the internet, then spend time with them. Don’t pawn this off to the state.

I never mentioned the state. This is like blaming the opioid epidemic on the addict and alleviating Purdue of all responsibility. No amount of personal accountability is going to fix the problem while multi-billion dollar corporations pump an addictive and harmful product into society 24/7.

Sighs.

SIGHS.

YouTube isn't the police.
Verifying your age to access adult/mature content isn't some novel concept. We absolutely can come up with a way to do this online that at least mitigates the risk of leaked/stolen data to an acceptable level. Doing nothing at all and just letting kids access anything they want on the internet is not a solution, and hiding behind "freedom" as an excuse to abdicate social responsibility is lazy.

Because that data is stored and passed on to third parties in most cases. Because data breeches are a common occurrence nowadays. Because gorvernments and companies can use that data against you later on.

I'm just curious... How did you sign up for internet service? Can you walk me through the process?

Poor parenting is certainly an issue, but saying "it's not social medias fault" is like saying the opioid epidemic "isn't Purdue's fault". The people who manufacture and distribute the addictive and harmful product should be the first ones we go after. No amount of individual accountability will solve the problem as long as multi-billion dollar corporations are pumping this shit out 24/7.

Second (and I’m not sure how we would do this) cut them off from the internet.

There are a whole bunch of ways to monitor, limit, and even cut off your kids internet usage. If you get your kid a cell phone or computer, you can install apps to monitor and limit what they watch and when. The fact that parents just let their kids freely use the internet with no supervision blows my mind.

After looking it up, it seems I remembered some of the details wrong, but it's the same family I was thinking of. I may also be remembering those wrong details from another story I read long ago, but my brain is basically a bowl of wet oatmeal at this point, so who knows.

Upon arrival, their bank accounts were immediately seized for suspicious activity (too many transactions). The wife made a tearful YouTube video criticizing Russia and saying she was ready to leave. The Kremlin took offense and the video was removed. The husband later made an apology video, saying their frustrations weren't aimed at Russia as a whole, but that they were just frustrated at getting used to how the laws there work.

Good on them if they are doing okay. Russia isn't a bad place, even if the government is shit. I wouldn't recommend moving there during war time, but outside of that, you could do a lot worse. I visited Russia and Ukraine in the early 2000s, and loved both places. I actually wanted to move there for some time, but life happened, then war happened, and I found somewhere else that fit me a lot better. I really hope to visit again someday.

Is this the same family that had their bank account seized by Russia and then the father disappeared for a while, only for mom to make a weird YouTube video that looked like a hostage video, claiming everything was fine?

I was this close to adding "other than water" to my comment.

Whelp... Looks like it's gonna be jerk style with a side of jollof rice and pikliz.

Caption: Judy said her family hasn’t got the MMR vaccine because they ‘don’t like the things in it’

I will cut off my left testicle and eat it for breakfast if Judy can name one ingredient in the MMR vaccine.

In case anyone is wondering why they say stupid shit like this, it's because they need to be able to convince a whole lot of stupid people that being gay can be "cured", just as it can be caused. And the cure? Religion.

It's all a big scam.