Big Featured Discussions | June 14, 2012 | 5 comments

How much responsibility do tech companies have to protect kids online?

Mobile app Skout recently shut down their teen website after three kids were allegedly raped. Skout's main app is an adult flirting site, but they launched a separate teen site as well.

Daily Beast writer Dan Lyons notes that while teens are a big audience for apps, there are also challenges for tech companies when it comes to moderating content and protecting children.

But how much responsibility to tech companies have to protect kids online? Should the burden be on the tech companies to set up systems to monitor sites geared towards minors or parents to watch what kids are doing online?

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5 comments // How much responsibility do tech companies have to protect kids online?

  • meesh76
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      meesh76  

    • The problem with who is responsible for our kids depends alot on your own personal upbringing, and I feel its a generational thing. So EVERYBODY IS RIGHT!! Personally, I feel as a parent, i am the end all be all!! I monitor my children's habits and behaviors. So Personally, I could say bottom line parents are responsible for their children. Asa consumer, we can say companies have to show responsibility on what and how they market their products to us as well and share some responsibility as well. We all share this responsibility to some degree. Parents we need to help each other for the sake of our kids. Today, our kids have massive outside influence, technology that allows them to talk and interact with people we would never see, so as a parent, I want accountability from companies that they are not marketing unsafe things to children, in spite of their parents. All parents dont monitor and cant monitor their kids every move. We as a community need to still keep these kids safe.

    • 11 months ago
  • rerushg
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      rerushg  

    • Why should the techs be responsible for my underage children? Seriously.
      Parenting is not, nor has it ever been, a societal responsibility.
      Kids under 16 should not have cell phones. Make it law. Problem solved.

    • 11 months ago
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