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Personally this is just reassurance that Brits are sensible people. That most understand filtering to be annoying and shamelessly opt out. And I find it hard
by 7952 12y ago
Personally this is just reassurance that Brits are sensible people. That most understand filtering to be annoying and shamelessly opt out.
And I find it hard to ciriticise parents that leave the filtering active. It is perfectly reasonable to try and shelter a child from porn. This tech may not do that particularly well but that is a different issue.
- higherpurpose 12y agoThere's Windows parental controls, OpenDNS, Chrome and Firefox extensions, and programs that can do all of that. You don't have to have a government mandated filter to protect your children.
- mod 12y agoAssuming they're equally effective, your solutions all sound like more work. Especially if you're talking about some combination of the above. If I actually wanted a solution, I'd probably go ahead with the government one, given your alternative.
- tacticus 12y agoSo if you actually want a solution what is wrong with making it an opt in when you sign up for the service or through the admin page for your service. rather than making it opt out with mandatory bits.
- mod 12y agoWell I absolutely think it should be opt-in, I'm not sure I said otherwise. But if the "opt-in" is "install and configure all this software" vs "tick this box," I'd rather tick the box.
- spiritplumber 12y agoPorn filters will never work. There is nothing more ingenious than a horny teenager with a computer. This may be a throwaway joke, but... well, it's true.
- secfirstmd 12y agoHahaha, would be funny if they use this knowledge for good and make the only way to get round filters to be learning Python, Linux or some other programming language... :)
- Fuxy 12y agoIs it necessary to shelter children from porn? As a child of the internet in a time when porn filters didn't even exist and most of the sites on the internet were mainly porn sites I find that argument without legs. Don't get me wrong you're well withing your right as a parent to postpone the issue as long as you like but is it really as necessary as most people tend to think?
- fluidcruft 12y agoHow did you leap from "reasonable" to "necessary"?
- trose 12y agoI think it would be more reasonable to monitor your child's search history and talk to them about pornography than to try and hide it from them and treat sex like its dirty and gross.