"When it comes to the internet and minors, thinking of banning is not realistic".
This is what Carla Garlatti, Authority for childhood and adolescence, affirms, in view of the 'Safer Internet Day' to be held on 7 February Officine Farneto in Rome with the title 'Together for a better internet', organized by the Generazioni consortium connected.
"It is necessary to guarantee - he maintains - safe navigation and to ensure the rights of minors connected to the use of the network. I am referring to the right to expression, freedom of opinion and the right to seek, receive and disseminate information and ideas regardless of borders. A this must be added that of accessing information and materials from various sources, especially those that promote social, spiritual and moral well-being,
as well as physical and mental health". According to Garlatti, "in this sense, making the internet safe means ensuring children a precious resource.
At the regulatory level, for example, it is necessary to introduce a sort of Spid for minors to verify the age of access to apps and social networks and it is necessary to stem, also through co-regulation with providers, the online overexposure of minors.
Then there are dangers that are not too perceived: identity theft, the appropriation of children's images for the production of child pornography content and profiling, which cages minors in a closed world of interests, ideas and news.
To this must be added education and awareness initiatives, also and above all for adults, who on some occasions promote, with their online sharing,
the formation of a culture of overexposure.
Adults who sometimes engage in contradictory behaviour, such as forbidding cellphones at the table or in class while at the same time using them themselves in the same contexts". (ANSA).