Prabhu RamAxios held a roundtable discussion in Barcelona with experts in children’s online safety. They discussed how regulators, tech companies, and parents are trying to keep kids safe online without restricting the internet too much. Axios reporters Sara Fischer and Ryan Heath led the discussion.
Five tech company CEOs recently testified to Congress about children’s online safety. This shows how important this issue is to lawmakers. However, there’s still no clear plan in the U.S. to protect children from online threats like exploitation and bullying.
There is no one single silver bullet for all of these issues, it’s not policy, it’s not just parental controls, it’s not device makers themselves. What we have seen for instance is … 83% of children, this is a survey that we recently did, for them, the smartphone is the primary means of relaxation.”
Prabhu Ram, CyberMedia Research head of industry intelligence group:
Source: Axios
