On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Softy <[1]softservant@gmail.com>
   wrote:

   Several responses have stated, and questioned, the children's rights
   accessing the Internet.  Yes, with supervision.  What all the responses
   have missed is the lack of distinction between communication and
   email.  Claiming a child has a right to private extra-familial
   communications is as divided as the general access to the Internet.
   With supervision, without any more or less privacy than the child has
   in non-virtual communications.
   And, what hasn't been connected to deciding on the level of
   supervision, the developmental state of the child is highly relevant.
   Claiming a child merits access - with or without supervision - can only
   be made by the primary custodians of the child.
   We wish to ignore this subtlety because we wish to ignore Society's
   overbearing on all of us.
   The result in this specific scenario is, regardless of the child, the
   custodians require and merit a higher degree of technical faculty.  To
   presume it is less than the childs is a mistake.  Along with this
   ability comes the burden of communication: to provide an appropriate
   example.  As with many non-virtual counterparts:   many failure.  such
   sad.
   Why should this medium of bits be different?


   Parents, yes, have a responsibility to raise their children, and as a
   result have a bunch of extra privileges and a bunch more authority over
   their children then any one person usually has over another. There is,
   for very good reasons, a very strong power dynamic in a parent-child
   relationship.
   And any power dynamic is prone to abuse, the stronger it is the more
   likely.
   I'm am very scared of the idea of a power dynamic like that, where the
   person at the receiving end has their communication completely
   monitored. It means that, in case they need to ask for help, that
   request will be monitored. And depending on how abused the power
   dynamic is, that could be a Very Bad Thing.
   Everyone needs a way to ask for help safely. Everyone needs a way to
   have peers safely.
   A power dynamic without those minimal checks is not a safe thing to
   have.
   (Also, can I express surprise at seeing this opinion *here*? Like, I've
   heard this sort of argument before, and it definitely has merits -- but
   I Very Much did not expect it on the cypherpunks mailing list? Is there
   just some sort of toggle? Do people suddenly go from "no reason that
   they should be able to have privacy" to "spying and censorship are
   suddenly totally wrong" when they reach the arbitrary age where they
   are Now An Adult? Was "get breached" the only thing mSpy did wrong?)

References

   1. mailto:softservant@gmail.com