What we really need is to start having safe spaces in real life that are actually safe again and for kids. Not places you need to spend money to be in or hangout in, places with adults that can actually be held accountable if something does happen. The internet will NEVER be safe for children under certain ages and that's always been the truth. You can beat your head against a wall trying to tell a 10 year old not to talk to strangers and be safe and mindful and to show their parents if something suspicious does happen but unfortunately children are not immune to the "I'm smarter than you and more mature than you think" disease. I was a child raised in an internet tech savvy household taught every danger under the sun, was even punished and had things taken away for the things being done to me, but I still went back and continued to have things done to me online.

If I didn't have the internet as a kid I'd have an actual life and not years of crippling trauma and mental illness that went unnoticed and unregulated because I was hiding online instead of branching out and finding a community that could actually love and support me.