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There's always people that say it's the parents responsibility to monitor their kids. But as a parent, you either give your kids full access to the internet or
by guelo 7mo ago
There's always people that say it's the parents responsibility to monitor their kids. But as a parent, you either give your kids full access to the internet or nothing. The fault lies with the OS companies Google, Microsoft, Apple. They do a terrible job with parental controls. They make it very hard to setup, they're confusing and hard to use plus they barely work. I think they just do it as a checkbox for marketing or regulatory purposes. That's where I'd like to see regulation.
- rstat1 7mo agoOS makers should not be in the business of enforcing censorship. If you want to shield your children from the "horrors" of the internet either use proper parental control software, or don't allow access at all like you said until your kids are mature to understand what's going on The onus is on the parent to the be parent. Not the tech industry, and especially not the government.
- guelo 7mo agoWho are you to decide what should or should not be? "proper parental control software" doesn't exist for a lot of the platforms.
- rocqua 7mo agoIf the solution is parental control software, that also puts onus on operating systems to present the means for such software to work properly. This does not mean the OS should censor, it might mean the OS offers a censorship interface. At least we seem to agree the solution lies with better tools for parents.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 7mo agoThe answer is a computer the child must sit down and use in front of the family. Steve Jobs ruined the world with the invention of the iPhone, and whoever else is responsible for the more generic smartphone. Now parents use one to quieten their children and governments use it to surveil us all.
- epolanski 7mo agoWhy is giving kids access to the whole internet a problem? I'm a millennial, I had access to porn as a kid, that's 25 years ago. What's the deal with it? The biggest issues are social media related, not by seeing how people exchange body fluids.
- windowliker 7mo agoIronically, the UK already has ISP level implementations to filter adult/illegal content that seem to work in most cases as intended. The lobby for this legislation came from groups concerned about matters more prevalent on large social media platforms who will barely be touched by the new regulations.
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