What the Risks Actually Are
Four categories, commonly confused, with completely different frequencies and completely different remedies.
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What the risks are
Four categories with different frequencies and different remedies. Controls address two of them well and two of them barely at all.
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Contact Risk
The rarest and most serious category, the one parents fear most, and the one technical controls address least.
Analysis
Content Risk
The category controls address best, the exposure that is nearly universal, and the response that determines whether it does harm.
Analysis
Conduct and Peer Risk
What children do to each other online, which is the largest source of actual distress and the category no control touches.
Analysis
Commercial Risk and Spending
The category with the clearest technical answer, and the design pressures that are aimed at children deliberately.
Analysis
Where Controls Do Not Reach
The places a child spends time that no household setting governs, which is a larger share of their life than most arrangements assume.
Analysis