When you create a system which, by intention, has no gatekeeping, regulation or oversight, this is what happens.

To the parents of my generation, a computer, tablet, smartphone etc. would have been expensive pieces of equipment, not toys for children. The scene was et for this moment by a later generation who, rather than limit and curate their offsprings' television watching (as mine did), simply switched the box on in the morning and left it on all day. To my parents, doing that was wasteful of electricity and shortened the life of the set, costing money both now and in the future.

Broadcast media were once rigourously controlled, either by the appointed officials of non-comercial networks, or the conservative inclinations of companies buying advertising time. But now digital TV and streaming, making their income from subscriptions, have fewer restraints.

The internet is too cheap, too accessible, too useful and far too big. It came too late to be subject to the restraints of generations of leaders and parents who took their moral reponsibilities seriously. The internet had no Reith.