YouTube has been one of the most challenging areas for parents who are concerned with the content their kids see online. On one hand, there are thousands of worthwhile, funny and educational videos on YouTube. On the other hand, giving a child access to YouTube is like letting them play in a video minefield because of the pitiful filtering options available from the platform. Third-party parental control applications can’t filter YouTube’s content effectively, nor should they be expected to, so the …
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In the coming months Netflix will be rolling out changes to their parental control options for parents. The PIN system that has been in place will be more robust, allowing parents added control to block specific …
An email came today that completely sums up why I started Sensible Cyber Parenting as part of The Computer Monkey, LLC. It was a fundraising letter from The National Center for Sexual Exploitation, formerly known as …
“What we’re seeing, especially on primetime, is content that never, ever would have made it to air on primetime broadcast TV as recently as five or 10 years ago,” Tim Winter, president of the Parents Television …