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The O2 Parental controls feature is designed to limit access to a whitelist of “sites that have been classifed as suitable and interesting for children under 12
by robinhouston 13y ago
The O2 Parental controls feature is designed to limit access to a whitelist of “sites that have been classifed as suitable and interesting for children under 12”. It must be explicitly enabled for each device by the account holder.
There has been a surge of Twitter outrage about it this weekend, though many of the outraged appear to misunderstand what the feature is designed to do.
- octo_t 13y agothere is literally zero reason to block sites such as the NSPCC and Childline. Zero. Parents being fundamentally able to block these sites is wrong.
- perlpimp 13y agoyeah it is somewhat similar to having all outgoing calls being blocked even 911 unless enabled by the parent. I mean who is even allowed to block outgoing 911 on their cellphone? it works even without a sim card!
- acallaghan 13y agoIt'd be like blocking a special number, say 1111 (which is the UK landline Childline number), which kids could use to only get advice on bullying, stress, self-harm and abuse. It's extremely sad that parents can be given the option to block these sites from potentially at-risk kids with abusive parents.