[NEWS]Roblox targeted in the Philippines for resembling gambling

[junder]

Is it that serious? I didn't know, but what you said makes me aware of such incidents.

Yes it is serious, and even if it wasn't that changes nothing. It has been explained to do that you do not need to have explicit gambling games in order to have gambling inside of any applications. Most user-oriented applications that are not about accessing services already do have this.

~snip~

The problem right now is that it’s hard to keep young children from using cell phones, because these days even kids under ten are already quite adept at using them. I see this in my own community my cousin’s child, who is still very young and not even in school yet is already quite skilled at using a cell phone. These days, it’s very rare to find children who can keep themselves away from social media.

[Satofan44]

I have a child who plays Roblox because in youtube videos that my child watch people play it and gaming seems fun. My child asked me to buy Robux (Roblox currency) and used it in games where you need to spin to get random prize. It was done without even realizing it is gambling. As a parent, I see no way how can I fight with it because all my warning and forbid to play crashes into «everyone in our class are playing» and this game is «one of most popular among children». The only way I see to avoid gambling in Roblox is to play together and insist that the game you have chosen is interesting and better than «game everyone are playing» if it has elements of gambling.

Alright. Next time your kid finds yourself in a environment where everyone is doing heroin you tell them that they should do it too, since everyone is already doing it and missing out on it would be bad. This seems to be the logic behind your decision making in relation to this particular case. I'm waiting for a denial or a copium "but this is different" answer from someone. When everyone is doing the same thing, and the thing in question is wrong, you are supposed to take another path. There is absolutely not a single valid reason in the world for which a child should be exposed to these things, or any other thing that has gambling related mechanisms.

But your example with heroin is different indeed. First of all my child will never be in such environment and be smart not to try it because everyone are doing drugs. Let me ask you first, do you have children? Because if you do, then teach me how you deal with situation, when other children are playing mobile games, watches youtube, and you tell your child that he can not do what his peers and friends do. Because "there are some content and moments" that might not be appropriate for your age.

You dismissed my argument that completely defeats your approach by a nonsensical statement. You can not guarantee that your child will never find themselves in an environment where everyone is doing heroin, it is an exaggeration for god's sake. You can replace it with any harmful substance or activity and the same point will stand. If all his friends start smoking cigarettes, you will tell him it is okay if he smokes a little bit too? There you have a more realistic example that happened to plenty of people. Same with gambling. My answer is a clear: When everyone else is in error, you do what is right regardless of what everyone else does, thinks or says. This is an opportunity to teach your child that they should not conform the societal pressures and make mistakes -- one of the most important lessons which they will be forced to learn later if they don't learn it on their own. Just because everyone else is doing something stupid (children playing mobile games and being addicted to the internet) that does not mean that your child should do it to.

In regards to your question, yes I have raised several children successfully but for anonymity sake I won't specify how many and what ages. How do you deal with your child in this case? It depends, there is no right answer that applies to everyone but there are plenty of wrong answers. It depends on you, your child and your relationship. Some children respond better to strictness, other children (more rarely) respond more to rational arguing. It is clear what you should not do though: Just let the child do whatever everyone else is doing (playing games and numbing their capabilities into a zoomer or gen alpha fish brain); extremely forceful method such as beating your child until they stop asking for it (this was very frequent in the past generations).

The truth what most people do not want to admit is: The lazy method is to let them do it (with or without restrictions) and invent all sorts of explanations or justifications to do it. Most modern parents are terrible, horrible creatures that should have not been allowed to be parents. You are supposed to spend many hours per day with your child especially when you need to teach them right from wrong, such as in the case of gambling and roblox. What most parents these days see instead: Great, he or she is playing on his own and now I can do whatever I want like mindless TV watching. Think wider, how do parents from extremely poor families do this? Families that can't even afford a phone or an internet subscription for their children. They are constantly in the situation where their child sees other children having or doing things which they can not due to financial means (and they see even more of this if they actually have access to the internet). This means it is possible, and it means that the only issue is you -- the parents.

The problem right now is that it’s hard to keep young children from using cell phones, because these days even kids under ten are already quite adept at using them. I see this in my own community my cousin’s child, who is still very young and not even in school yet is already quite skilled at using a cell phone. These days, it’s very rare to find children who can keep themselves away from social media.

What do you mean it is hard? Is it hard to keep children away from drugs until some years? Of course it is, just don't give them any. Do not give your children smart phones and the problem is solved. It is not like someone will gift them a smartphone and even if they would be gifted one, take it away. None of the children of this generation that I have seen even have 1% of the technology skills that I do, therefore do not blame the children's "skills" which are quite low. Instead blame yourself for not being competent enough to place restrictions that can not be bypassed in any way except by the top technicians of the world.

[bakasabo]

I have a child who plays Roblox because in youtube videos that my child watch people play it and gaming seems fun. My child asked me to buy Robux (Roblox currency) and used it in games where you need to spin to get random prize. It was done without even realizing it is gambling. As a parent, I see no way how can I fight with it because all my warning and forbid to play crashes into «everyone in our class are playing» and this game is «one of most popular among children». The only way I see to avoid gambling in Roblox is to play together and insist that the game you have chosen is interesting and better than «game everyone are playing» if it has elements of gambling.

Alright. Next time your kid finds yourself in a environment where everyone is doing heroin you tell them that they should do it too, since everyone is already doing it and missing out on it would be bad. This seems to be the logic behind your decision making in relation to this particular case. I'm waiting for a denial or a copium "but this is different" answer from someone. When everyone is doing the same thing, and the thing in question is wrong, you are supposed to take another path. There is absolutely not a single valid reason in the world for which a child should be exposed to these things, or any other thing that has gambling related mechanisms.

But your example with heroin is different indeed. First of all my child will never be in such environment and be smart not to try it because everyone are doing drugs. Let me ask you first, do you have children? Because if you do, then teach me how you deal with situation, when other children are playing mobile games, watches youtube, and you tell your child that he can not do what his peers and friends do. Because "there are some content and moments" that might not be appropriate for your age.

You dismissed my argument that completely defeats your approach by a nonsensical statement. You can not guarantee that your child will never find themselves in an environment where everyone is doing heroin, it is an exaggeration for god's sake. You can replace it with any harmful substance or activity and the same point will stand. If all his friends start smoking cigarettes, you will tell him it is okay if he smokes a little bit too? There you have a more realistic example that happened to plenty of people. Same with gambling. My answer is a clear: When everyone else is in error, you do what is right regardless of what everyone else does, thinks or says. This is an opportunity to teach your child that they should not conform the societal pressures and make mistakes -- one of the most important lessons which they will be forced to learn later if they don't learn it on their own. Just because everyone else is doing something stupid (children playing mobile games and being addicted to the internet) that does not mean that your child should do it to.

In regards to your question, yes I have raised several children successfully but for anonymity sake I won't specify how many and what ages. How do you deal with your child in this case? It depends, there is no right answer that applies to everyone but there are plenty of wrong answers. It depends on you, your child and your relationship. Some children respond better to strictness, other children (more rarely) respond more to rational arguing. It is clear what you should not do though: Just let the child do whatever everyone else is doing (playing games and numbing their capabilities into a zoomer or gen alpha fish brain); extremely forceful method such as beating your child until they stop asking for it (this was very frequent in the past generations).

The truth what most people do not want to admit is: The lazy method is to let them do it (with or without restrictions) and invent all sorts of explanations or justifications to do it. Most modern parents are terrible, horrible creatures that should have not been allowed to be parents. You are supposed to spend many hours per day with your child especially when you need to teach them right from wrong, such as in the case of gambling and roblox. What most parents these days see instead: Great, he or she is playing on his own and now I can do whatever I want like mindless TV watching. Think wider, how do parents from extremely poor families do this? Families that can't even afford a phone or an internet subscription for their children. They are constantly in the situation where their child sees other children having or doing things which they can not due to financial means (and they see even more of this if they actually have access to the internet). This means it is possible, and it means that the only issue is you -- the parents.

I agree that a lot of issues with children comes when parents become lazy or let things go. As you have raised several children I would like to ask for an advice, and not to go offtopic, it will be about roblox and children.

I can spend who child free time doing something interesting, but as soon as he goes to school, meet friends, or eventually takes a gadget in his hands, there is a chance (and it is high) that he will hear about roblox. I can monitor and control activity at home. But I cant do that when he is at school. I cant tell other children to stop talking about roblox. I cant tell my child to close ears when someone talk about roblox. What should I do in such situation? My choice would be also let play roblox and warn about content there.

There is other possible way where situation might go. Other children might bully my child because he is different, because "he is not like everyone and dont play roblox". Fight bullies because of roblox? That is not a solution.

[Satofan44]

I agree that a lot of issues with children comes when parents become lazy or let things go. As you have raised several children I would like to ask for an advice, and not to go offtopic, it will be about roblox and children.

I can spend who child free time doing something interesting, but as soon as he goes to school, meet friends, or eventually takes a gadget in his hands, there is a chance (and it is high) that he will hear about roblox. I can monitor and control activity at home. But I cant do that when he is at school. I cant tell other children to stop talking about roblox. I cant tell my child to close ears when someone talk about roblox. What should I do in such situation? My choice would be also let play roblox and warn about content there.

There is other possible way where situation might go. Other children might bully my child because he is different, because "he is not like everyone and dont play roblox". Fight bullies because of roblox? That is not a solution.

I was trying to tell you the answer to this specific situation in between the lines to this. It depends. The main two groups of the choices and consequences are (allowing unrestricted play is not a choice so it was not included -- only idiots would do that):
1. Allowing play, but only under your conditions and restrictions -- limited, just enough to make your child included.
2. Disallow play anyway. Should you let your child do whatever they need to do to be "like everyone", again back to heroin and smoking? Just because the thing in question is not as harmful as you consider these other options, that does not mean you should dismiss this.

So which one should it be? Again, it depends on your circumstances. The safer and healthier approach is always number 2, but it may come with other negative consequences that you need to deal with. In effect you would be displacing the negative impacts of roblox (and all that it comes with it) with some potential negative impacts that relate to his social circles. The question is would the negative impacts that come be bigger or lesser than the negative impacts of Roblox and gambling. This is something that you have to analyze, we can't tell you that because it depends on your child, the school, the children there, their addiction to Roblox (addiction is reflected in how deeply integrated it is into their behavior). If you decide that it would lead to a very bad outcome, then you must apply a strict version of the solution under number 1. Most people don't even know how to do anything in relation to that except some basic parental controls that can be easily bypassed -- and then they go around telling people that their child is a tech virtuous (they are not).  

Generally, children who are outliers -- if given adequate support and alternatives turn out to be better children than the majority of the children that are doing things that everyone else is doing. The risk is that without adequate support they can become much worse in the end (social outcasts, addicts, and all sorts of other things). Anyway, situation like these provide an opportunity to teach these general lessons (regardless of if you decide to go with option 1 or 2):
1) Refuse societal pressure.
2) Build confidence.
3) Teach defense against bullying (mental or verbal).

You can literally see quickly on any adult whether they have failed to learn some of these lessons in life, and many have. The number of people who avoid conflicts as adults these days is ridiculous, they are weaklings. Their parents have obviously been giving them all sorts of things while they were growing up -- and they were giving in to when they should have not (to peer pressure or whatever) which has led to worse outcomes (not better ones).
One big issue of modernity is this endless giving in to the demands of children, in effect the children are the parents of the "parents". It is easy to find explanations why you should give in, because giving in is always the easier option. Look also to other examples of what is going on and how wrong everything with parenting is these days @bakasabo. You have literally many parents these days saying that it is impossible to raise a child without giving them a smartphone or tablet to play with at the age of 2 or 3 already.   I've seen so many times children in public scrolling Tik Tok like brainless zombies..

[STT]

The correct path is for kids to be playing outside but some areas or even communities that is dangerous.  Alot changed over my life and the obvious is the constant danger of cars, you dont even have to include a direct negative human aspect as just getting knocked down by passing cars is easily the greatest danger for parents to watch out for.  So kids stay inside and a mobile or device instead of 'real' play.

The problem right now is that it’s hard to keep young children from using cell phones, because these days even kids under ten are already quite adept at using them.

Kids learn fast, my nephew under 1 years old knew how to turn on music via touchpad and liked to dance with it.   So from the very beginning they start with that knowledge and in later years likely know more then the parents in many cases.

[Hispo]

The correct path is for kids to be playing outside but some areas or even communities that is dangerous.  Alot changed over my life and the obvious is the constant danger of cars, you dont even have to include a direct negative human aspect as just getting knocked down by passing cars is easily the greatest danger for parents to watch out for.  So kids stay inside and a mobile or device instead of 'real' play.

It was common for kids to play outside back in the 90s and 80s, those were simple and easy times, when there was no internet connection, no phones and television was very basic and limited to some cartoons and news.
To be fair, it is possible for kids to go outside and play like during the good old times, there are parks and places where they can play with little risk of getting hit by a car. But the youth has changed, we are not longer in those days, today all entertainment is supposed to be digital and with people one have never seen face to face (one of the dangers of Roblox).

There is nothing wrong with the modern way to keep kids entertained, one just needs to be careful and watch out what they consume.

[mirakal]

Kids learn fast, my nephew under 1 years old knew how to turn on music via touchpad and liked to dance with it.   So from the very beginning they start with that knowledge and in later years likely know more then the parents in many cases.

This is dangerous, especially if parents are not knowledgeable enough about online platforms and how things work. How can they properly guide their children if they themselves do not fully understand the risks?

Once you give a child a device with internet access, they will naturally learn a lot, but because they are still minors, they are not fully aware of the dangers online. In a way, their minds are curious and fast, but emotionally that is still their weakest point, and that is exactly what bad actors target.

So that is probably one reason why the Philippines is even thinking about banning Roblox because of the incidents that happened, which later resulted in crimes and were made worse by the lack of proper parental guidance. Sadly, that means it is not really suitable for our country in its current situation, and if it does get banned, even the responsible parents who are actually guiding their children well will still be affected.

[Betwrong]

I don’t know, I don’t play games on those apps, but if it’s true, it should be investigated every time. If it only resembles gambling and no real money is involved, it’s a big question whether such a game or the entire platform should be blocked. But if it allows kids to gamble for real, it’s not a question — it should be blocked.

Anything that involves any kind of chance mechanism is a gambling mechanism, even if it does not involve real money. Add some fancy colors and sounds and things that have been proven to increase the likelihood that someone will spend time in an app, game or something like that and you have pure gambling as if in a casino. You can try random mobile games to check it out, most of them will have some free spin, watch AD to spin, reward spins after a few games and mechanisms like that. Since they all involve randomness of rewards and literally even visually resemble casino games like wheel of fortune, they are gambling.

C'mon! Lots of games resemble wheel of fortune. You think, we should ban all of them? We'll run out of kids’ games then.

The thing is, this is so common and there is so much money involved that the chance of a blanket ban is very low -- they are not going to ban Candy Crush when there are thousands or millions of other games that do the same. Many users of these games would even complain if they were to be banned (but hey, they are totally not addicted). 

Of course people would complain. Imagine banning kids’ toys that resemble weapons—I mean, even things like toy pirate knives. That’s impossible for obvious reasons. In short, games that only resemble gambling shouldn’t be banned, but games that actually are gambling definitely should.

[Satofan44]

The correct path is for kids to be playing outside but some areas or even communities that is dangerous.  Alot changed over my life and the obvious is the constant danger of cars, you dont even have to include a direct negative human aspect as just getting knocked down by passing cars is easily the greatest danger for parents to watch out for.  So kids stay inside and a mobile or device instead of 'real' play.

Completely false. We live in the safest time yet by basically most metrics, even though there are increases in various types of crimes temporarily due to a variety of issues that are happening. The only thing that has changed is that you are brainwashed by the constant amount of information that you are now wrongly believing all sort of false nonsense, where before you wouldn't even know that it happened. This is why the information age was a big net negative to most people, it softened and brainwashed you without actually providing any substantial benefit. Kids can roam around today, like they could before, and could be even considered more protected in most cases since many places have CCTV so hunting criminals is easier.

The problem right now is that it’s hard to keep young children from using cell phones, because these days even kids under ten are already quite adept at using them.

Kids learn fast, my nephew under 1 years old knew how to turn on music via touchpad and liked to dance with it.   So from the very beginning they start with that knowledge and in later years likely know more then the parents in many cases.

False, just because you were incompetent or are incompetent with technology that does not make kids "quite adept". Everyone who believes that kids of the current ages are good with technology is an delusional idiot. They know how to consume content and act like brainless zombies such as in the case of playing Roblox and being addicted to gambling mechanism. They do not even know how to repair the most basic things and get confused by any situation that is different than the standard. Knowing how to drive a car does not make you specially, nor does it make you a mechanic (let alone a good one). Don't confuse basic usage with competency.

C'mon! Lots of games resemble wheel of fortune. You think, we should ban all of them? We'll run out of kids’ games then.

If you can't design games that don't resemble gambling, then you should not design games at all. Yes, all those games should be banned and those who advocate for them should be imprisoned.

Of course people would complain. Imagine banning kids’ toys that resemble weapons—I mean, even things like toy pirate knives. That’s impossible for obvious reasons. In short, games that only resemble gambling shouldn’t be banned, but games that actually are gambling definitely should.

People are idiots. Games that resemble gambling, which means that they have gambling mechanisms that are designed to hijack a growing brain towards addiction should be banned. They are nothing like the thing you are comparing it to. Should we allow toy games that simulate drug taking, cutting drugs and other stuff like that even if the powder being used is not that dangerous? Cutting lines and snorting sugar up your nose? Why not, let your kids do it after all it is just an imitation? 

[Dave1]

Is it that serious? I didn't know, but what you said makes me aware of such incidents.

Yes it is serious, and even if it wasn't that changes nothing. It has been explained to do that you do not need to have explicit gambling games in order to have gambling inside of any applications. Most user-oriented applications that are not about accessing services already do have this.

~snip~

The problem right now is that it’s hard to keep young children from using cell phones, because these days even kids under ten are already quite adept at using them. I see this in my own community my cousin’s child, who is still very young and not even in school yet is already quite skilled at using a cell phone. These days, it’s very rare to find children who can keep themselves away from social media.

Yes, with social media right now, no one can really control what our children can see with their mobile phones. I have seen a lot of news that some of them can't be control by their parents and will throw a tantrum when they are not on their gadgets.

So perhaps parents are partly to blame with the attitude of our children of today. Games like Roblox can influence our kids or worst as reported, it is being used by bad entities and victimized young kids.

[junder]

What do you mean it is hard? Is it hard to keep children away from drugs until some years? Of course it is, just don't give them any. Do not give your children smart phones and the problem is solved. It is not like someone will gift them a smartphone and even if they would be gifted one, take it away. None of the children of this generation that I have seen even have 1% of the technology skills that I do, therefore do not blame the children's "skills" which are quite low. Instead blame yourself for not being competent enough to place restrictions that can not be bypassed in any way except by the top technicians of the world.

As I mentioned earlier, it’s difficult to prevent them from using gadgets and the internet, which serves as a complement to those gadgets.

These days, parents tend to give their children unrestricted access to gadgets, since gadgets have essentially become a necessity.

The same goes for the content on those gadgets, such as games, which are almost certainly available for them to play.

Even if they don’t understand how to use them, their peer group can be one of the reasons they learn how they work.

[Satofan44]

What do you mean it is hard? Is it hard to keep children away from drugs until some years? Of course it is, just don't give them any. Do not give your children smart phones and the problem is solved. It is not like someone will gift them a smartphone and even if they would be gifted one, take it away. None of the children of this generation that I have seen even have 1% of the technology skills that I do, therefore do not blame the children's "skills" which are quite low. Instead blame yourself for not being competent enough to place restrictions that can not be bypassed in any way except by the top technicians of the world.

As I mentioned earlier, it’s difficult to prevent them from using gadgets and the internet, which serves as a complement to those gadgets.

All that you have written is completely false. It is completely trivial to deny access to any kind of thing to children, especially "gadgets". Are you trying to say here that it is also impossible to prevent children from using cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, pharmaceuticals as well? It is the same concept, there is absolutely no single difference in terms of preventing access. The delusions of modern people are absolutely insane, it just shows that most humans should not be allowed to exist and we would be better off if they didn't. The children can't even have access to any device at all until someone buys it, and the very act of buying it prematurely is the first mistake. Furthermore, if you are technologically incompetent that you are unable to set proper controls and limits then you should not buy any device at all until you can change this fact about yourself.

These days, parents tend to give their children unrestricted access to gadgets, since gadgets have essentially become a necessity.\

False, they are not a necessity of any kind. You are hallucinating like you posted this with ChatGPT.

The same goes for the content on those gadgets, such as games, which are almost certainly available for them to play.

Even if they don’t understand how to use them, their peer group can be one of the reasons they learn how they work.

Also false. Anyone with basic technical competency, which excludes over 90% of the people in the world, is able to set up a gadget in a way that none of those are available to the child. Therefore, even in cases in which for some idiotic reason a person has decided to provide their children with gadgets and make them consumer-addicts there are easy ways to set up controls which can not be bypassed. In those cases, only content that is approved can be watched or installed. Their peer group most definitely does not understand these gadgets either, stop hallucinating already. 99.9% of the kids that are currently using smartphones do not have any clue how they work, they do not know anything about them. They are completely addicted consumers, stop confusing competency with addiction. Knowing how to install apps and scroll inside of apps, and playing video games is not technical competency.

Why do you think that gen Z and gen alpha are some of the dumbest generations possible, with the weakest literacy, attention spam and complete mental weakness? Surely it is because they are masters of great technical competency. The fact is: Roblox can be easily prevented. If you can't prevent it, it just shows that you are a bad parent who can't even familarize yourself with something before you allow your child to have it.

Hey doc, all the other kids were doing this new street drug so I let my child also have it. Peer pressure, it is not my fault!   Fucking idiots.

[Betwrong]

Of course people would complain. Imagine banning kids’ toys that resemble weapons—I mean, even things like toy pirate knives. That’s impossible for obvious reasons. In short, games that only resemble gambling shouldn’t be banned, but games that actually are gambling definitely should.

People are idiots. Games that resemble gambling, which means that they have gambling mechanisms that are designed to hijack a growing brain towards addiction should be banned. They are nothing like the thing you are comparing it to. Should we allow toy games that simulate drug taking, cutting drugs and other stuff like that even if the powder being used is not that dangerous? Cutting lines and snorting sugar up your nose? Why not, let your kids do it after all it is just an imitation? 

Good analogy. Of course, we shouldn't allow games like that. But if we ban them, no one will notice because we'll ban less than 1% of games. With banning games that resemble gambling, on the other hand, we'll have to ban 100% of all games, because all of them have parts that resemble gambling in a way.

[Satofan44]

Of course people would complain. Imagine banning kids’ toys that resemble weapons—I mean, even things like toy pirate knives. That’s impossible for obvious reasons. In short, games that only resemble gambling shouldn’t be banned, but games that actually are gambling definitely should.

People are idiots. Games that resemble gambling, which means that they have gambling mechanisms that are designed to hijack a growing brain towards addiction should be banned. They are nothing like the thing you are comparing it to. Should we allow toy games that simulate drug taking, cutting drugs and other stuff like that even if the powder being used is not that dangerous? Cutting lines and snorting sugar up your nose? Why not, let your kids do it after all it is just an imitation?  

Good analogy. Of course, we shouldn't allow games like that. But if we ban them, no one will notice because we'll ban less than 1% of games. With banning games that resemble gambling, on the other hand, we'll have to ban 100% of all games, because all of them have parts that resemble gambling in a way.

That claim is false and it comes up with a made up number. Perhaps in the digital world of modern games where most are designed primarily to make children and adults addicted to gambling you may be close to the truth, in terms of games outside of that you would be completely false. What exactly did you think that children spent their time on just 20 or 30 years ago? Most of them had limited amounts of toys and games (the farther you go back in recent history, the more this claim is true), and those that turned into competent adults later on spent their youth making up dumb games that they played with other local children. Modernity's sick parents have replaced this creativity and autonomy process by bombarding children with items and an endless repository or junk and dangerous content through the internet and technological devices -- thereby preventing them from gaining key developments.

Perhaps you are confusing gambling mechanism, such as a daily free reward spin with games that have any kind of chance and you'd group both of them in the same category. This is false groups. Traditional board games are for example not in any way designed to get you addicted to anything even if some like Monopoly has some chance elements. But games like Chess, Go, puzzle games and many others do not have any chance or gambling methods at all. Painting, crafting, all sorts of activities are games that do not have any dangerous elements -- they are purely beneficial. Do some research. Roblox and most games are cancerous to children, but they are a free and lazy way out for most people -- which is why they spend more time inventing justifications for shit like that than they do studying any kind of skill.

[Hispo]

What do you mean it is hard? Is it hard to keep children away from drugs until some years? Of course it is, just don't give them any. Do not give your children smart phones and the problem is solved. It is not like someone will gift them a smartphone and even if they would be gifted one, take it away. None of the children of this generation that I have seen even have 1% of the technology skills that I do, therefore do not blame the children's "skills" which are quite low. Instead blame yourself for not being competent enough to place restrictions that can not be bypassed in any way except by the top technicians of the world.

As I mentioned earlier, it’s difficult to prevent them from using gadgets and the internet, which serves as a complement to those gadgets.

These days, parents tend to give their children unrestricted access to gadgets, since gadgets have essentially become a necessity.

The same goes for the content on those gadgets, such as games, which are almost certainly available for them to play.

Even if they don’t understand how to use them, their peer group can be one of the reasons they learn how they work.

I think all comes down to the will of parents to be able to control whatever their children consume, though.
It is possible to restrict their access to internet, smartphones and computers, even if those things have become a necessity in this modern world.
There are parents which are more prepared and are more tech-savvy so they can set theose restrictions up.

There is software already which specializes on parent control and with the development of artificial intelligence, those software will become more and more efficient over time.

[freedomgo]

I think all comes down to the will of parents to be able to control whatever their children consume, though.
It is possible to restrict their access to internet, smartphones and computers, even if those things have become a necessity in this modern world.
There are parents which are more prepared and are more tech-savvy so they can set theose restrictions up.

There is software already which specializes on parent control and with the development of artificial intelligence, those software will become more and more efficient over time.

Not all parents are tech savvy. Sometimes their children are even smarter than them when it comes to these things, so how can they properly monitor their kids if they do not even know how to operate the app or device?

That is why the most convenient move for the government is usually just to ban it. It is easier for them to say they are protecting the youth, instead of actually educating parents and building a better system for monitoring and control. Sometimes, there are countries that are just not ready for new development because of lack of knowledge and preparation. Especially in the Philippines, where it feels like corruption is more prioritized by those sitting in power than the real welfare of the people.