You’re teaching your children to accept highly invasive surveillance. And for what? Just so you can surrender to a moral panic about stranger danger, when actual rates of childhood abduction and abuse are at historic lows. You’re failing to properly raise citizens of a healthy democratic society. Instead, you’re raising children to accept living in an authoritarian society. If kids grow up with their own parents spying on them, why would they ever think the government and corporations spying on them is wrong? You surrendered the freedom of your own children, just to give in to your own irrational insecurities. But you tell yourself that your case is different, that you’re violating their privacy for their own good. This is exactly what every authoritarian government tells their citizens. It’s for your own good; that’s what they always say. You are failing to teach your children to have the values necessary to be citizens in a healthy democracy.

The road to Hell is paved with “for the children.”