Two years after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle abandoned all their social media accounts, he has admitted he fears the day his children Archie and Lilibet go online.
Speaking out against rampant online hate and trolling, the Duke of Sussex opened up about his approach to parenting in the modern age to 5Rights Foundation.
As they launched the Global Child Online Safety Toolkit webinar on Monday, Harry spoke about how social media can harm children, including his own.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with son Archie in 2019.
(Image: Getty)“As parents, my wife and I are concerned about the next generation growing up in a world where they are treated as digital experiments for companies to make money and where things like hatred and harm are somehow normalised,” he said, via People.
“We want our children and all children to feel empowered to speak up.”
Harry and wife Meghan Markle have previously spoken out against the dangers of unmoderated social media platforms and choose not to share many photos of their children online.
“My two little ones are still at their age of innocence,” Harry continued.
“Sometimes I feel like I can keep them away from the online harm that they could face in the future forever, but I’m learning to know better.”
The 37-year-old added that he hopes Archie and Lilibet never have to experience the online world “as it exists now”.
This isn’t the first time Prince Harry has spoken about wanting a better world for his kids.
During his AppleTV+ documentary series, The Me You Can’t See, the royal spoke about his own upbringing and how his father, Prince Charles, very much stuck to tradition.
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“My father used to say to both William and I, ‘Well it was like that for me, so it’s going to be like that for you’,” he said during the fourth episode.
“That doesn’t make sense. Just because you suffered, that doesn’t mean your kids have to suffer.
“In fact, quite the opposite. If you suffered, do everything you can to make sure that whatever negative experiences that you had, that you can make it right for your kids.”
This article originally appeared on our sister site, New Idea.
