In the webinar for the 5Rights Foundation, Prince Harry spoke about his worries for children if the digital environment doesn’t change, noting that “the next generation [is] growing up in a world where they are treated as digital experiments for companies to make money and where things like hatred and harm are somehow normalized,” per People. The Duke of Sussex also noted his children Archie and Lilibet are currently still too little to be exposed to online negativity. And that as much as at times he feels he could “keep them away from the online harm that they could face in the future forever,” sadly, he’s “learning to know better.”
Since parents can’t reasonably expect to protect their children from online harm, Prince Harry and others are advocating for changes in digital laws, via The Guardian. The Global Child Online Safety Toolkit provides resources for policy makers to create a safer online world for kids.
