Tech-Savvy Kids Defeat Apple’s and Others’ Parental-Control Features - WSJ

Parents say the controls aren’t simple enough and there are too many loopholes.

This is the essential problem. Software design has the absolute ability to create a master/slave dynamic, but the manufacturers and app developers are incentivized to help kids circumvent parental controls and increase engagement with a key demographic. So instead, they give these convoluted and easily breakable “tools” that are just a veneer.

Maybe parents should just stop giving kids these devices.

“I’ve been in tech for a long time, and I understand products pretty well, and I was incredibly confused,” said Tim Kendall, former president of Pinterest

Same.