Protecting your kids on the internet: Pandemic edition

Matthew Vanderzee
11 min readOct 10, 2020

Update 2020.10.12: Bark Home added!

The internet is a horrible place. And now that our terrestrial world is a virus-ridden hellscape, all human communication, entertainment, and education has moved to the digital world. We hold our children’s hands, walk them up to the gates of the internet, and say “go learn stuff!”

If we were airlifting our children into a jungle survival mission, where they had to survive for three days amidst wolves, snakes, and non-potable water, we would equip them with at least the…

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Matthew Vanderzee

CTO at Crisis Text Line; father of three; half of Veloureo (veloureo.com); creator of some novels / short films / eps of Squishy and Plate.