> Parental Controls is the right answer but absolutely agree that parental controls suck. As a parent, I'd love just any level of better control. I don't even care if I have different controls per manufacturer as long they're pretty complete and capable.
> If the EU can mandate USB-C, they can mandate all technologies include powerful and capable parental controls.
> There is no need for age verification -- parents know how old their children are. Parents are providing children with the devices and often the means of connectivity as well. This is and has always been a parenting problem. If the government wants to assist parents, I'm all for that. But age verification is not the answer.
We no longer live in the era of a single family computer. Parents don't know about all devices their children will use to access the internet, so filters aren't going to cut it.
A good implementation of age verification would assist parents, as you suggest, while denying control to the government. IMO parents should always be able to bypass the block for their children. If the government wants to "block" Wikipedia, the parents should be able to give it back to their kid.
> Parents don't know about all devices their children will use to access the internet, so filters aren't going to cut it.
Parents own their network. They can easily issue root certs to devices on their network or deny access to non allowlisted sites. They can require a proxy to hit anything outside the allowlist too.
Then they can not only see what sites their kids visit, but they can also set up some models to check all media for naughty content. It's not a hard thing to solve as a parent and prevents mass surveillance outside your local network.
> We no longer live in the era of a single family computer.
In that era, there were always other family's computers.
> Parents don't know about all devices their children will use to access the internet
That's why we need the parental controls! That's the entire purpose. All devices that all children have everywhere were given to them by an adult. If they have Internet access, some adult somewhere is paying for that service. We simply want more control over those things that is easier to manage.
It's not parental control; it's governmental control. Yes, parents can bypass it for their children but that doesn't mean it's parental control. When you have to provide your own ID to access a site your parents are not involved.
> If the EU can mandate USB-C, they can mandate all technologies include powerful and capable parental controls.
> There is no need for age verification -- parents know how old their children are. Parents are providing children with the devices and often the means of connectivity as well. This is and has always been a parenting problem. If the government wants to assist parents, I'm all for that. But age verification is not the answer.
We no longer live in the era of a single family computer. Parents don't know about all devices their children will use to access the internet, so filters aren't going to cut it.
A good implementation of age verification would assist parents, as you suggest, while denying control to the government. IMO parents should always be able to bypass the block for their children. If the government wants to "block" Wikipedia, the parents should be able to give it back to their kid.