Giving kids a computing device isn’t much like giving them a car so that analogy fails for me. Instead, think of it like a portal to a child’s view of the Internet. Child-locked devices get one view of the Internet and unlocked devices get a different view. The view you get depends on whether the lock is on or not.
It’s true that devices aren’t people, but I think that’s a strength of taking a device-based approach. Parents (or anyone who is curious) should easily be able to see for themselves what the child-locked Internet looks like. Search engines should be able to crawl the Internet in child-locked mode to see what’s there. This would make it easier to do things like enforcing laws against advertising to children. Maybe some features like cookies cookies could be disabled?
It’s okay for people to share devices. Parents (or anyone else who is curious) can use a child-locked device to see what the Internet looks like for kids. Kids can use a parents’ device with supervision to see the adult view.
It’s true that devices aren’t people, but I think that’s a strength of taking a device-based approach. Parents (or anyone who is curious) should easily be able to see for themselves what the child-locked Internet looks like. Search engines should be able to crawl the Internet in child-locked mode to see what’s there. This would make it easier to do things like enforcing laws against advertising to children. Maybe some features like cookies cookies could be disabled?
It’s okay for people to share devices. Parents (or anyone else who is curious) can use a child-locked device to see what the Internet looks like for kids. Kids can use a parents’ device with supervision to see the adult view.