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The most insane thing about this headline is that implies parents are giving their children devices with unfiltered access to the Internet and then the governme
by AlienRobot 1y ago
The most insane thing about this headline is that implies parents are giving their children devices with unfiltered access to the Internet and then the government needs to play wack-a-mole with every single website they come across to prevent children from accessing it.
- 1oooqooq 1y agowho wouldn't want the gov banning workers organizing collective action online? can you think of the damage to children if they mistake it for a Minecraft server? do you want to be responsible for that?
- thinkingtoilet 1y agoParents are absolutely giving children devices with unfiltered internet access. I think people here need to step out of their ivory tower. I would say most people don't even know to think about the things people here think about. "Unknowns unknowns", if you will. We all agree here that this is a bad idea. What percentage of the worlds population do you think reads Hacker News?
- AlienRobot 1y agoIf you're going to say that, I think most people wouldn't even access websites to begin with. They spend most of their time on Youtube, Instagram, and TikTok. I know people who don't know how to use Google because they only use a smartphone to browse scroll Instagram and Facebook. They're never going to access a website.
- esseph 1y agoLarge companies have dozens or hundreds (even thousands) of their own internal websites, plus tons of SaaS for HR, tax, benefits, etc. People use "websites" all the fucking time.
- _Algernon_ 1y agoRegulate the parents then. You don't strip search every customer in your store because one person shoplifted.
- seanalltogether 1y agoI don't know about iOS, but on Android I have access to Family Link which means I can control what apps my kids can run off the app store, and I can control whether they can access explicit websites (according to google) or have free access. I know other parents that are well aware of this tool, but they have to make sure those phones or tablets are signed into with accounts they have ownership of. I think this is the direction that the government should be pushing for and making sure apple google and microsoft are all playing nicely to allow parents to manage devices under the family.
- Aloisius 1y agoiOS is similar. You can also limit apps/books/movies/etc. by content age rating, block adult sites, etc. without parental approval (which just happens over messages). There is even an on-device image classifier for images/video to blur pornography from messages and keep them from sending it to others.
- mr_toad 1y agoThe most insane thing about western society is the tendency of a lot of the populace to abrogate all responsibility to the government.
- leobg 1y agoThat’s the hallmark of socialist countries. It used to be that where in Eastern Germany people would look to government for a solution, those in the West would start a business, or learn a new skill, or read self help books. Nowadays, the self help books are read only for entertainment, and people look to government as the solution to any problem, no matter where they are, or how individualistic and free market they call themselves as a nation.
- luke727 1y agoThat's just par for the course in UK culture. During American criminal trials, the jury is told not to watch the news. During British criminal trials, the entire British press is legally forbidden from reporting on the trial.