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The real solution, IMO, is a second internet. Domain names will be whitelisted, not blacklisted, and you must submit an application to some body or something.

goopypoop 9mo ago
sounds like an app store
anon84873628 9mo ago
I agree. There were attempts to do something like this with porn sites via the .xxx TLD I believe, but that inverts the problem. Don't force the public to go to a dark alley for their guilty pleasures. Instead, the sites that want to target kids need to be allowlisted. That is much more practical and palatable.
- tracker1 9mo ago
  Yeah.. the opposition was just a bad take IMO... "but it will create a virtual red light district" which is EXACTLY what you want online, unlike a physical city, you aren't going to accidentally take a wrong turn, and if you're blocking *.xxx then it's even easier to avoid. Then require all nudity to be on a .edu, .art or .xxx, problem mostly solved.
  - MarsIronPI 9mo ago
    > Then require all nudity to be on a .edu, .art or .xxx, problem mostly solved. Who's doing the requiring here? Sounds like yet another path to censorship dystopia.
    - tracker1 9mo ago
      In the case of cc-tlds the respective government... In the case of other TLDs ICANN. edit: .edu provides for educational content, .art for artistic expression, .xxx for explicit content.
      - smegger001 9mo ago
        Who decides where the art erotica boarder is? There is plenty of content that would straddle that border, I have seen art that could legitimately called pornographic and pornography i would describe as art. Who decides? And then you have prudes Florida Texas red states trying to prevent remove any thing from an .edu and would happily ban the .xxx entirely and would find any .art suspect and probably ban it.
jvanderbot 9mo ago
I dont see why phones can't come with a browser that does this. Parents could curate a whitelist like people curate playlists, and share it, and the browser would honor that. Combined with some blacklisted apps (e.g., all other browsers), this would be a passable opt-in solution. I'm sure there's either a subscription or a small incentive for someone to build this that hopefully isn't "Scam children". It's not like kids are using PCs, and if they use someone else's phone, that's at least a severely limiting factor.
- crab_galaxy 9mo ago
  They do, don’t they? Apple devices have had a robust whitelisting/blacklisting feature for at least a couple of years. I use it to block websites and apps to lessen my phone addiction. I’m sure Android offers similar features
  - jvanderbot 9mo ago
    Block -> opt out Allow -> opt in And a techie customizing it is v. different than turnkey for parents. But yeah! Same principle, that's why I'm sure it's been done / will be done.
sroussey 9mo ago
AOL returns!

goopypoop 9mo ago

sounds like an app store

anon84873628 9mo ago

I agree. There were attempts to do something like this with porn sites via the .xxx TLD I believe, but that inverts the problem. Don't force the public to go to a dark alley for their guilty pleasures. Instead, the sites that want to target kids need to be allowlisted. That is much more practical and palatable.

tracker1 9mo ago
Yeah.. the opposition was just a bad take IMO... "but it will create a virtual red light district" which is EXACTLY what you want online, unlike a physical city, you aren't going to accidentally take a wrong turn, and if you're blocking *.xxx then it's even easier to avoid. Then require all nudity to be on a .edu, .art or .xxx, problem mostly solved.
- MarsIronPI 9mo ago
  > Then require all nudity to be on a .edu, .art or .xxx, problem mostly solved. Who's doing the requiring here? Sounds like yet another path to censorship dystopia.
  - tracker1 9mo ago
    In the case of cc-tlds the respective government... In the case of other TLDs ICANN. edit: .edu provides for educational content, .art for artistic expression, .xxx for explicit content.
    - smegger001 9mo ago
      Who decides where the art erotica boarder is? There is plenty of content that would straddle that border, I have seen art that could legitimately called pornographic and pornography i would describe as art. Who decides? And then you have prudes Florida Texas red states trying to prevent remove any thing from an .edu and would happily ban the .xxx entirely and would find any .art suspect and probably ban it.

jvanderbot 9mo ago

I dont see why phones can't come with a browser that does this. Parents could curate a whitelist like people curate playlists, and share it, and the browser would honor that. Combined with some blacklisted apps (e.g., all other browsers), this would be a passable opt-in solution. I'm sure there's either a subscription or a small incentive for someone to build this that hopefully isn't "Scam children". It's not like kids are using PCs, and if they use someone else's phone, that's at least a severely limiting factor.

crab_galaxy 9mo ago
They do, don’t they? Apple devices have had a robust whitelisting/blacklisting feature for at least a couple of years. I use it to block websites and apps to lessen my phone addiction. I’m sure Android offers similar features
- jvanderbot 9mo ago
  Block -> opt out Allow -> opt in And a techie customizing it is v. different than turnkey for parents. But yeah! Same principle, that's why I'm sure it's been done / will be done.

sroussey 9mo ago

AOL returns!