It does give you more access to information but also allows young impressionable brains to be influenced in a negative way by misguided "influencers".
The distribution channel isn't the main issue, it is that the role of a parent is more complicated than it ever was and parents are not keeping up.
In the past you had to ensure that your kid doesn't pick up negative influences from the kids around them. Today you need to be more proactive in ensuring that they don't pick up negative influences from the multitudes of misguided people unrestricted by geography who's half-formed views are propagated as long as they are interesting and make people feel good about themselves in the short term.
The distribution channel isn't the main issue, it is that the role of a parent is more complicated than it ever was and parents are not keeping up.
In the past you had to ensure that your kid doesn't pick up negative influences from the kids around them. Today you need to be more proactive in ensuring that they don't pick up negative influences from the multitudes of misguided people unrestricted by geography who's half-formed views are propagated as long as they are interesting and make people feel good about themselves in the short term.