What is missing from the kids’ internet?

Media that kids and adults enjoy together is the smart way to prepare children for online danger

There's two ways a conversation about the internet and parenting can go: the first way, which is also the stupid way, is to focus on how to stop kids from accessing the Bad Internet and doing Dumb Things there.

This is the David Cameron approach. David Cameron has proposed that all the porn sites in the world should check and record incoming UK visitors' ages - in practice, this means getting their credit-card numbers (and, inevitably, leaking them, tied to their porn preferences). Sites that don't comply will be dealt with: in practice, this means being blocked by the Great Firewall of Cameron, a foolish errand begun in the last parliament whereby an unaccountable, non-adversarial process is used to arbitrarily block websites at the border.