Big Tech Loves Your Kids
Big Tech ‘loves' your kids. But not with a real love...
Big Tech wants to monetise children and youth. Their motives are entirely selfish. Video and image-based social media platforms exploit young minds. They tease and tempt, creating addiction to sexual images. Starting small and baiting them with more and more. Porn producers use these platforms to recruit for the future and make a living at our kids’ expense.
And it is not just the kids getting tempted. I’ve talked with elderly saints struggling with porn. Maybe you are too?
When we pray “keep us from temptation”, we need actions to prove we mean what we say. Some of our church members attended a seminar last week about parenting in this sexualised world gone mad. Here are some resources that were shared that will help you learn more and take real actions to keep us and our families from temptation:
A great general website produced by friends of our diocese:
https://resistporn.org/
Accountability software:
https://www.covenanteyes.com/
Real Talk education resources:
https://www.realtalkaustralia.com/
Parent resources to help manage social media, pornography & know what our kids are watching in movies and TV shows - Online safety | eSafety Commissioner:
https://www.esafety.gov.au/
Focus on the Family - Plugged In:
https://www.pluggedin.com/
Culture Reframed Parents Program | Building Resilience & Resistance to Hypersexualised Media & Porn:
https://parents.culturereframed.org/
Books by Patricia Weerakoon can be bought via Youthworks Media | Christian Books for All Ages - Shop Online:
https://youthworksmedia.net/
Let me add a P.S. for adults… One of the tricky aspects of all this is that addictions are hard to break. If you are needing support to break a habit yourself chat to a Minister and/or check out the online courses and support groups here: https://nakedtruthproject.com/ or https://samsonsociety.com/.
Grace and peace,
Mark