Mike DomitrzPresident, Author, and Speaker on Respect, The Center for Respect, Inc. · Author & Speaker on Respect for Schools, Corporations, & the Military since 1990 (has reached

The harmful impact of the internet on young children.

12 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from a YouTube presentation, Speaker A addresses Mike and the audience about the dangers of granting internet access to children at ages far younger than previous generations. The speaker contrasts the past, when exposure to sexual imagery typically occurred through adult magazines at ages 16‑18, with the present, where children as young as five to ten are encountering explicit images online, often accidentally. The speaker emphasizes that such early exposure is a factual reality and asks the audience to acknowledge the ages at which this occurs, underscoring the heightened risk of accidental exposure for very young children.

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Because, Mike, here's what happened. We've been given internet access. Your generation has been given internet access at an age way before you might be ready for some of the things you're seeing on the internet. That's a fact. So give me an example. Your parents, when they were raised to see the same kind of imagery, the average age the person saw that imagery, was it only in magazines? No. When your parents were— seriously, when your parents were growing up, It was only in magazines. They were adult-only magazines. So the average age somebody saw something like that was 16 to 18. Now, what is the average age do you think currently your generation sees sexual images on the internet? Yell out some ages. 5! I heard a lot of 5s to 10s. But by the way, is it possible a 5-year-old could accidentally scroll into this world? Yes or no? Yes! Yes, it is.