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The Right Way to do this is to develop a standard for web pages to identify themselves as not suitable for children, and then build clients with a setting that
by lisper 4y ago
The Right Way to do this is to develop a standard for web pages to identify themselves as not suitable for children, and then build clients with a setting that locks out those pages (which could be disabled only with a passcode or some such security measure). Then it becomes the responsibility of parents to insure that the lockout is enabled no the devices their children have access to.
- EarlKing 4y agoNo, the right way to do this is to stop trying to use legislation to do the jobs of parents. Stop expecting the world to nerf itself so you can be a lazier parent.
- mjevans 4y agoReverse that. All things should be considered UNRATED (adult) by default. Adults that want to should set a flag in the OS account, which should be passed along (or optionally also set as a child account) by browsing software. In child safe mode such software would then follow a set of local policy decisions and refuse to operate with content not declared child safe. Such an account feature might also forward the data to other accounts for review (parent, guardian, teacher, etc). THEN, the enforcement, sites which incorrectly claim to be a given rating should get hit with the charges that enables.
- jvalencia 4y agoI really like this. An industry enforced standard with consequences would stop most problems.
- out-of-ideas 4y agoAgreed; the ISP is paid by an adult, adult paid for computer/tv/ect, and its the adult to state when said child can operate such equipment. Last I'm aware said adults dont let children watch TV completely unrestricted (having an adult locking adulty-content). It should be up to parent/guardian to oversee what kid is doing and lock them out, with younger kids getting more supervised attention. Keep our IDs/PII/phonenumbers out of browsing the web. We could go a step further by banning highly accurate fingerprinting and make things nice n generic; hopefully making ads as generic as the wonderful ads as-seen-on-tv.
- bell-cot 4y agoThat would be reasonable and easily workable, but... ...daunting for millions of parents, who'd imagine (often rightly) that their kids, aided by friends & on-line instructions & such, would all-to-easily bypass the parental controls. ...dis-empowering for politicians lusting after attention & votes, who think that moral panics and big-government-control-freak "solutions" are their best friends.