Sick New Facebook Plan Poses Danger to Kids and It's So Bad Dozens of Attorneys General Are Taking It On

My parents are fond of retelling the story of a couple they knew who swore up and down their kids would only watch PBS. This was the 1970s — the era before cell phones, before video game systems, before your TV choices consisted of anything more than the three major networks, PBS, and local independent stations that ran reruns of “Our Miss Brooks” and B-movies with titles like “Disembodied Venusian Alien Hands Attack.” If it could be pulled off, it should have been a cinch.

So, imagine my parents’ lack of surprise when they arrived one Saturday afternoon to find their friends’ 6-year-old twins watching “Starsky & Hutch,” all with the defeated parents looking on.

“I didn’t know ‘Starsky & Hutch’ was on PBS now,” my dad said. The girls were confused, the parents were slightly roiled and an anecdote was born.

There’s a wider point here, which is that it’s difficult for parents, even with the best intentions, to police their child’s media usage. This is especially true in 2021, when the stakes are somewhat higher than your kids watching a drug dealer kill one of Starsky’s informants or one of them asking what, exactly, Huggy Bear does for a living.

With social media and the internet, your child can be exposed to material and individuals that aren’t just obscene and rebarbative but deadly and dangerous; parents in 2021 need to ensure children aren’t able to venture to the seamier corners of the internet, particularly where predators might lie in wait.


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