While I think it's important for parents to watch what their kids are doing on the internet, I also feel that sometimes parents are often planted for disaster/issue. Like my mom nearly passed out and later nearly scalped me when I was like 13 and she found out I was talking to people on the internet. Now, I understood her concerned for pedophiles, but I was in a relatively safe site (it was generally a site dedicated to a game series and not really an open forum and I was very paranoid about giving information and speaking to people privately) and was never once approached, and it never became a problem for me. Now, there are unfortunate cases, but I feel like the media goes a bit over the top sometimes. It's important to spread awareness, but not put people in fear.
That and there is also the concern of what the government/whoever is in charge of the censorship actually censors.
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