> You mean the people's rights to lure and attack my children?

Most child abductions and abuse[0] are from within the family or by people known to the child. Internet strangers are the absolute least of your worries.

[0] At least in the UK

Then enable parental controls on your children's devices. But don't enable it on my device, because I'm an adult.

If you're letting your kids be lured and attacked, that's a parenting issue. Responsible parents aren't letting their kids slip out alone. The better solution to this would be some sort of penalty for irresponsible parenting.

> but okay

Serious topic, don't do that.

Protecting children is hard. Generations of parents have been put under loads of pointless stress so that they leave lots of education to "the system" and it's clerks, most of which were only good enough at their jobs. Things developed, and mistakes of deliberately mislead parents were conventionally framed as life and life's lessons.

We are talking about thousands of kids/adolescents raped every party weekend in US and Europe ( rape is jut one extreme example ).

The role of social media in the mere exposure effect to character types and behavioral patterns is obvious--and probably well studied--but "it's just social media - raise your kids well and stop blaming others" works about as well as outlining how certain pop segments were sabotaged for decades and couldn't even exert the free will to do things better/differently--even though they noticed the premises and conclusions of certain problems--because it went against the advice of figures who were perceived as authoritative.

Maybe get good at parenting?

(This comment is addressed to peer comments, not the parent post.)

It's silly to say "Get better at parenting", when parents who have no specialist training, are literally facing off against trillion-dollar companies with thousands of industrial psychologists and data scientists hell-bent on making their products as addictive and profitable as possible.

There are huge information- and power asymmetries at play here. Just shouting: "Parent your kids" better is simplistic, stupid and wrong IMHO.