One of the most developed countries and one of the countries with the most absurd stories and contradictions I ever heard. Sorry folks saying this. I never heard stories of a child using the parents credit card to buy things, online or offline (in my country).
Internet is an instrument that shorten all the distances between countries, is the largest source of information, it’s a way of getting things that otherwise weren’t possible, a way of developing faster the knowledge, an approximation of the World. Internet isn’t dangerous by itself. What is dangerous is people that don’t have brains to use it, parents that don’t dedicate sufficient time to childs, people that want things open up front without any research.
A more educated people is the answer, is the cure. Banning websites, limiting information, or any other kind of limit on freedom is like using a painkiller when we have pain. It relieves the pain, not the cause.
I never was in the US but I have stories of friends that horrified me. A friend of mine bought a pack of beers and went to a party. In the meantime, when walking he opened one beer and 2 police cars stop him. He felt like a criminal and was fined by drinking on the street(well he didn’t know because he’s absolutely free to drink a beer on the street in his home country). By other side anyone can go to a “grossery store” and by a gun.
He also went to a bar/disco and asked for a beer. The waitress said: Sorry, sir, we don’t serve any alchoolic drinks after midnight. When he came home, he said me: you know, people in the US thinks that a mix of alchool and guns is very dangerous, so, he ban alchool.