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Honest question from someone who grew up in the era of web content controls: Do you really think you -- or any of us -- have the technical capability to stop an
by Cushman 15y ago
Honest question from someone who grew up in the era of web content controls: Do you really think you -- or any of us -- have the technical capability to stop another person from seeing something on the Internet if they want to?
It makes sense to try to help a young child keep from accidentally stumbling across that kind of crap, but I'm highly skeptical of the idea that you can prevent your child from looking at porn full stop-- or would really want to.
- kellishaver 15y agoNo, not at all. I'm going with (hopefully) good parenting and crossing my fingers on that one. ;) It's preventing the "accidentally wandering into questionable content" that I'm interested in, in search results, etc. I'm not so much even worried about protecting her from the "questionable content" because I think that's something she needs to learn to deal with (though we do of course have rules about what is and isn't allowed). I just don't want her stumbling across it on a tablet in her bedroom, where we won't notice and can't offer guidance or discussion. We have a computer in the living room that she uses for internet access and we don't have any filtering software, etc. on it. It's just out in the open, so generally supervised.
- Cushman 15y agoThat's a great answer. I hope I didn't come off as too critical, sounds like you definitely know what's up.
- kellishaver 15y agoThanks you :) and no, I didn't think you sounded harsh at all.