You must not be a parent. A non technically savvy parent really has very limited control. Even a technically savvy parent can control the devices they buy for their children only, on the wifi network they pay for for their own home, only.
This leaves them totally exposed if school gives them a chromebook or anytime they're in range of another open network.
Besides, the effects of this content are society wide. You can be the one parent who keeps your kids away from dangerous content, but if all their friends don't, they will be influenced by them.
> Parents can easily control which parts of the internet their kids have access to,
Oh, that said, the specific technical way they want to implement this is awful. Making or even allowing individual porn sites to administer the ID system is horrible. Have they never heard of Oauth? There should be a "adultidcheck.gov" type central government service that handles this.
Friendly reminder that prior to the popularization of the internet 20-30 years ago, there was absolutely no equivalent situation where you could have the kind of anonymity the internet provides. It is not any kind of natural right. If you wanted to send or receive information it had to be done in some physical way, so your identity could not really be hidden. Privacy, yes, anonymity, no.
> Friendly reminder that prior to the popularization of the internet 20-30 years ago, there was absolutely no equivalent situation where you could have the kind of anonymity the internet provides. It is not any kind of natural right. If you wanted to send or receive information it had to be done in some physical way, so your identity could not really be hidden.
What? You could buy books/magazines with cash. There were literally laws preventing porn rental shops from keeping records on their customers. No one had any idea what you watched on your television or listened to on the radio. There were (are) ham radios. You could record your own tapes, print your own magazines/pamphlets/books, put up your own flyers/posters. There are analytics on every single one of the modern equivalents of these things now, in fact I think you probably have to admit the point of the web has become to add analytics to stuff for advertising.
The era we're living in now is the least private, least anonymous era ever, it just doesn't feel that way because there's a huge inequality in who we're exposed to. In other words, some people argue that in village or tenement life there wasn't a lot of privacy, but that was maybe 40 people knowing when you had sex. Anyone with your smartwatch data has that info now, which a lot more than 40 people; they just don't live anywhere near you (well, probably not anyway).
Laws like this really don't address anything then. Children will continue to find and circulate "dangerous content."
As a mid-thirties millennial, I saw the transition. Kids shared paper pornography in the 90s, and had access to the most extreme and anonymous version of the early internet. I don't think either inflicted the kind of widespread harm mass surveillance proponents would suggest.
> Friendly reminder that prior to the popularization of the internet 20-30 years ago, there was absolutely no equivalent situation where you could have the kind of anonymity the internet provides.
It also wasn't possible for every action and thought a person had to be monitored by governments and corporations. We've gone way too far in our assault on privacy and desperately need to claw rights back.
I can't believe that this seems to be such a minority perspective.
I find it horrifying how many people seem to default assume that censoring is a good thing.
The internet may be harmful but it's not just a few explicit sites that you need to worry about. It's the whole thing. Either teach your kids to make good decisions or block them from the internet in full. There isn't a middle ground that works really. We are absolutely rocketing towards the worst kind of dystopia and it seems like a lot of people are on board with it.
This leaves them totally exposed if school gives them a chromebook or anytime they're in range of another open network.
Besides, the effects of this content are society wide. You can be the one parent who keeps your kids away from dangerous content, but if all their friends don't, they will be influenced by them.
> Parents can easily control which parts of the internet their kids have access to,
Oh, that said, the specific technical way they want to implement this is awful. Making or even allowing individual porn sites to administer the ID system is horrible. Have they never heard of Oauth? There should be a "adultidcheck.gov" type central government service that handles this.
Friendly reminder that prior to the popularization of the internet 20-30 years ago, there was absolutely no equivalent situation where you could have the kind of anonymity the internet provides. It is not any kind of natural right. If you wanted to send or receive information it had to be done in some physical way, so your identity could not really be hidden. Privacy, yes, anonymity, no.