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iPhones are pretty locked down, and stand a good chance of allowing parents to totally block adult content. Android and general-purpose computers less so, natur
by gary_0 3y ago
iPhones are pretty locked down, and stand a good chance of allowing parents to totally block adult content. Android and general-purpose computers less so, naturally.
But VPNs have already come up as the way around these new age-verification laws, and that didn't stop them. Kids can always find ways around this stuff (when I was in high school eons ago, just about everyone was underage drinking, and a lot of my friends had porno mags too).
Fortunately, most democratic countries will be constitutionally prevented from enacting full-blown police states to stop kids from doing naughty things. Hopefully.
- t0bia_s 3y ago- Fortunately, most democratic countries will be constitutionally prevented from enacting full-blown police states to stop kids from doing naughty things. Hopefully. Constitution/law just transfer responsibility to other entity. Whithout responsibility, there is no freedom. State never bringing morale or ethics to society. I would rather focus on why kids doing naughty things, where they learn it, what are consequences of their actions, etc.
- bee_rider 3y agoRight. And this is just in phones, which are already a pretty locked down ecosystem. In general, there would be more implementation problems the farther we look away from there: what about things like laptops, particularly laptops with Linux, or raspberries pi, or heck, an Analogue Pocket… there’s a whole range of computing devices; locking down all this stuff would be a huge pain-in-the-butt process. Rather than have some legislatively confusing mess where every device manager has to wonder if they are responsible for implementing some giant DRM scheme, we’re better off just letting the market handle it.