Tbh it is unfit for my in laws as well. And one is a gambling addict. The real regulation won't get done but policing people and becoming authoritarian, sure
How about you parent better and prevent your kids by educating them against the dangers of said things?Limit their time online and what they can do? Why should democracy be at stake and people's freedoms, just so you can get away with not parenting.
Yes, in theory that's correct but show me a kid that never did something against the will of their parents. If something is forbidden it's something worth investigating. Furthermore there will always be another kid with a phone to share watching anything online. The traditional solution has been forbidding with punishments when the kids get caught breaking the rules.
Clowns who know nothing about internet want to regulate it. Shows how their monopolies are propped up in real world. On lies and disparity and subduing people.
They are mostly just taking advice from lobbyists who know very well what they are trying to do. A lot of bills are written by the lobbyists themselves. This is why it is so important to donate to causes like the EFF and ACLU. They are often the only other voice in the room.
Your ipad babies are not my problem. It's called parenting. Don't do ipad parenting then. We didn't get a SEGA console and cable TV was restricted to only 2 hours. It was fine. It was fun. The only thing I wish for from my child is more time with friends not more screen time.
It's called parenting. Don't do ipad parenting then. We didn't get a SEGA console and cable TV was restricted to only 2 hours. It was fine. It was fun. The only thing I wish for from my child is more time with friends not more screen time.
Stop making your kids my problem! We have everything to hide. It is called personal identity. All data online managed by companies will always be misused, lost to scammers, blamed back to you for something you never did, and hunt you down.
This is an interesting point: there is a trade-off between kids being denied access to inappropriate websites and adults not being forced to verify their age. We can't have both, so we must weigh which is more important. One could argue that protecting kids is clearly more important; on the other hand, there are way more adults in the world than kids, so more people are impacted with restrictions for adults.
Millenials are the first generation that had massive, unrestricted access to porn online. I'd wager a good chunk were negatively affected. Overconsumption was not much of a risk, until it was. To say nothing about extreme content.
It's also important to understand that this is not a binary situation. You will never keep 100% of the kids from 100% of the inappropriate material. So it should be a debate about levels, and trade-offs.
IMO, the approach of having the large / popular commercial OS platforms ask you the birthday of the primary user on install (and secure that so it can't be changed), and then reveal the age (bucketed to a range) to apps. If you don't have kids, or care what they see, just put Jan 1 1900 (or have an explicit opt-out, which puts you in the last bucket). After that it's up to parents to parent.
Privacy is way more important than protecting kids from consuming content online. Kids already have more protection than it's worth, probably, this is moving in the wrong direction.
Yeah but kids that are online are perhaps ~5 to 17, while adults go from 18 to 80, 90 or more. Moreover, social media is usually also allowed for older teenagers, so it's not necessarily all people up to 18 that need filtering out.
The republican population and the foolish minded people who want to be centrists have led to this situation of democrats and republican politicians acting out this way. More than 50% hopefully don't feel that way. I don't
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