Parents advised to be vigilant over summer holidays to risk of offenders using in-game live chats to target their children

  • real_squids@sopuli.xyz
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    23 hours ago

    Kids and teens should just be banned from social media and social gaming.

    Disagree on the second part, more like limited, or better - separated. There’s no harm in playing games with friends or strangers, as long as there’s actual moderation or it’s just a chill community.

    I don’t think it’s the fault of those games themselves, but the trends in videogame development and support (extracting as much money as possible with little support). And also there’s barely any enforcement when it comes to age ratings so it’s a double whammy.

    • LoreSoong@startrek.website
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      22 hours ago

      You’re right, the devs arent going to put millions into modderating, it wouldnt be profitable so its definitely not on them sorry if i implied that. I genuinely believe kids would be better off gone regardless. There are probably “chill” communities out there but Its still dangerous because you have to trust every single user to not be a creep. I just think as idividual adult communities we need to just kick these kids out of servers, discord channels, twitch chats Etc. And imo label anyone who thinks that its okay for kids to be in these spaces weirdos.