Make cyberspace safer for kids (Poll Inside)

PETALING JAYA: Despite more children using the Internet, the use of parental controls has gone down, a survey by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has found.

The Internet User Survey by MCMC discovered that the number of children aged five to 17 who use the Internet has grown by 155% from 2016, but parents’ awareness of parental controls has decreased from 62.4% in 2018 to 53.4% in 2020.