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What not just have site that are serve explicit things advertise that. Have a large scale Blocklist, and if you serve explicit content, then you need to be on t
by spacemanspiff01 3y ago
What not just have site that are serve explicit things advertise that. Have a large scale Blocklist, and if you serve explicit content, then you need to be on there.
Then have a option when people sign up for internet to block all the IPs associated with explicit stuff.
Adults and parents can choose "yes or no" when they pay for internet and then be done with it.
If children are still getting access, then their either technically savvy, which nothing will stop. Or an adult in their life is allowing unblocked internet.
Just make ip filtering easy and default so that parents can set it up without having to understand anything. It should be a required thing when you request internet access "do you want to filter out explicit content"
Some sites that have dual content may have to have separate IP addresses for non-explicit and explicit/non explicit. But that is relatively easy. And if they do not care, then they will by default end up on explicit list.
- ndriscoll 3y agoA couple problems with that are that people will disagree on what is inappropriate for children (e.g. drugs, nudity, sex, simulated violence, real violence, simulated gore, real gore, foul language, educational material that's sexual in nature, hate speech, advertising), and parents may want unfiltered or differently filtered access for themselves while blocking it on a device/profile the child uses. I imagine a huge firewall list is probably also technically challenging for ISPs unless there's some convention for IPs (like even/odd LSB). But you can just have the site serve a content labels header. Specify what the content is, with a standard for topics which may be commonly considered inappropriate for children, and let parents configure controls at the OS level, which the browser should respect. This lets you even provide the info at the level of individual resources (so e.g. wikipedia could label images or pages with topics like nudity or violence, and parents could opt to allow/block topics). You could also have a coarse header indicating that the site does not want minors to access it, and that could be an option for the browser to block.
- 20after4 3y agoI don't like any form of censorship / filtering but this is by far the most reasonable way to do it if it must be done.