Your Kid Will Experience Something Bad Online If you ask a room of parents to tell you the digital issues that keep them up at night, porn and predators are always toward the top. Most internet safety and child advocates ascribe to the “not if, but […]
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I Swear No One at Google Has Children Many organizations, including PYE, posted about the February 24 announcement from YouTube about new content filtering levels. They were finally adding more filtering options for parents who wanted more control. Yeah! Just as a refresher, up until this
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In partnership with Representative Susan Pulsipher and the National Center and Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), Protect Young Eyes helped craft device filtering legislation that recently passed the Utah legislature and has now been signed by Governor Cox! We’re thrilled! Despite significant opposition from Big Tech, lobbyists from
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Breaking News: On March 16, 2021, Instagram released a new post that laid out their new parental controls for teens, which mostly focused on direct messaging (DMs). The title of the post was: Continuing to Make Instagram Safer for the Youngest Members of Our Community Instagram
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What is OnlyFans? OnlyFans is a subscription-based content website (there is not an app). Content creators make money by sharing photos, videos, etc. to their subscribers. The content creators on the platform are diverse: musicians, chefs, fitness professionals, photographers, makeup artists, and celebrities. However, what OnlyFans
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(Updated May 20, 2024) Hi, I’m Cindy. This blog post is for us. Those of us who were abused as children. Raising children is scary for every parent, but it can be downright terrifying for parents who experienced childhood trauma. I was sexually abused by a
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YouTube Finally Promises Some Relief for Parents Thanks to the tireless effort of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), YouTube is promising more video content filtering options for kids under age 18 who are also using Family Link. We broke this news on Instagram on
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Clubhouse is a social audio app – not social media, even though it’s classified with the other, mainstream social media apps like Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Discord. The key difference between Clubhouse and other social media apps is its combination of ephemerality (nothing is recorded and the app prevents you from recording) and
What is the Robinhood app? Robinhood is a simple investing app. You can dabble in stocks, (mutual) funds, options, gold, crypto(currency). It has a smooth interface and was literally made for the average person to quickly get into trading. Its marketing says, “Investing for everyone,” and
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**Updated November 25, 2020** TikTok Parental Controls are (Already) Decent Parents are often surprised to learn that when compared to Instagram or Snapchat, TikTok is actually the only major social platform with parental controls. Meaning, features or functions that a parent can lock in with a
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