Because its contextual; he wants his son to communicate; theres nothing wrong with kids talking to adults online: my childhood was largely spent price gouging dumb adults on Puzzle Pirates when I was 8, 9 years old: learnt a tonne about micro economics.

There is however a big issue of bad actors abusing unvetted channels.

We have to look at hardware-level solutions like VOOP, which can block the sending of nudes (for example) entirely.