How can parents keep kids safe online?

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With children spending more and more time online, we’re asking people around Cardiff how parents can allow kids freedom online, while also keeping them safe.

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00:00Actually, there shouldn't be, I mean, there's that much bad dark things online, isn't there?

00:05I mean, we're out playing outside.

00:07I am not a computer person. I do have experience of nephews growing up.

00:13And by, I think, about the age of 17 or 18,

00:17at least one of my nephews had found access to the dark web.

00:23Having a mobile phone is like an umbilical cord.

00:26If you cut it off, it's like, oh, my God, what can we do?

00:29What did we do before that?

00:31Even sending letters now, it's all emails, isn't it? All this rubbish.

00:36So even text-savvy parents, they're going to struggle to stay on top of all the trends.

00:40And it's the age-old situation.

00:43Any lock you build to prevent someone from getting in, someone's going to crack it.

00:48And if they can't crack that lock, they're going to find a way.

00:52I fear, yes, parents should be concerned.

00:56But how do you rebalance the two?

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