• Spotify is adding parental controls that will block videos, podcasts, and explicit content. • These controls are for Family Account plans where a parent manages a kid's account. • It's been a vexing situation for parents who haven't been able to control content until now.

Allow me to describe an unfortunate scene that unfolded in my home not long ago. It involves my elementary school-aged children and our Alexa device, which is mainly used for kitchen timers, weather, and playing music through Spotify.

At some point, my sweet, darling children discovered that they could get funny results by asking Alexa to play songs, through Spotify, that had various potty words.

Expanding on this, one of my enterprising children recently asked, "Hey Alexa, play mommy farted," and indeed, a silly

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