Parental controls are built into Windows, ChromeOS, Android, Xbox, Playstation and Switch.
Instead of trying to control the internet, they should have spent a fraction of that money on an education campaign teaching parents that these things exist and they’re incredibly easy to use.
Spend a little more on encouraging companies to unify these controls for even easier use. (EU would be better positioned to do this too)
But that wouldn’t give the government control over what you, as an adult, see. That’s the real reason.
What annoys me is that they keep talking about this like it’s the most simple thing in the world where in fact every single part of this situation is extremely complicated. So either they don’t understand how complicated this is, or they are hoping that the general public doesn’t understand.
USE PARENTAL CONTROLS
We run a VPN here for whole house, so online act does not even work to do anything here. My kids have already told me about friends getting around blocks by just asking grandparent’s or other friends. ISP’s in the UK have a mandatory “ON” restricted content policy you have to ask to turn off covering the whole net. A better solution is learn to use parental controls and teach your kids better. This was never about the kids though was it. It was about further laws down the road. Things such as “they can use this to get around this, lets ban it”.
Ironically the people who are most likely to be restricted are the tech illiterate and older people who don’t understand it.
Kids know most things about technology today. They are using iPads from 5 years old in many families. It’ll be the kids who use a VPN and get access to whatever they want in a matter of minutes.
Who is this law even supposed to be for? To stop toddlers accessing pornhub? Because it’s definitely not for young teenagers.
one of the main arguments on the other side is that parents don’t know how to setup filters and parental controls… so how about the government enforces ISPs to have adult sites blocked on their routers by default and then parents have to turn it off themselves or set times for it to be unblocked? my reasoning is that parents would be much more willing to learn how to unblock things than block things, especially when it comes to home wifi routers, as they might want to watch porn themselves. it would take one google search for the parents to look up how to change the filters on their router (usually via an app or webapp). they’re far more likely to have the incentive to learn about these things if it’s for their own benefit.
or we could have a system for kids’ devices – when you setup your kid’s phone and put in their age (which won’t be verified, it’s the parent putting in the age why would they lie), the parental controls block adult sites by default.
Agreed children shouldn’t have access to adult content. But this is down bad parenting not blocking access to this stuff on children’s devices. The government enforcing this on all of the public is not the answer.
It’s easy they use comp where you can look over there shoulder easy
Sadly, children are often much more educated than their parents on online safety. Like parents who are not knowledgeable enough to know their kid is using a VPN to access porn and stuff. The likely result will be an even worse situation because parents think the government is doing their job.
Just enforce isp to auto restrict adult content but leave it so an adult / account holder can revert the changes.
You know like a mobile phone plan .
But it’s not about that. It’s about control and monitoring what you see, believe and think.
This will be used to block lgbt+ sites
At least this forces kids to smarten up and figure out how to use a vpn, if they want that wank
Considering half the sites don’t adhere to it makes it basically useless well done wanky starmer slow clap
I can see the resulting Community Notes, direct retweets and so on being utilised massively by everyone else…
Sure, Britain and Australia might’ve bought the farm, but they’re learning examples that you don’t want and quite frankly, I’d fully support tech companies championing their parental controls for children more than the current (Oh we have them in addition). I feel they should be showcasing them in adverts for the parents more, as I don’t think I can get away with given my kid a Nokia brick.
It would be quite easy to help parents manage their children’s online activity if Google, Apple and Microsoft allowed proper parental control.
That includes NOT reducing or stopping parental control at the age of 13.
They are still legally children, still under parental control, still cannot access adult content at the age of 13, so WHY the fuck do the major OS providers think it’s ok to reduce parental control at that age?
Parents should be empowered to take control and responsibility of what their children access.
Otherwise it’s just an excuse for control and potential data grabbing from the government.
WHAT THE FUCK IS A PARENTAL CONTROLS!!
I WANT TO BE PUT IN (REDACTED) CAMPS MADE BY THE GOVERMENT
It’s also being used to censor child friendly lgbtq+ content
On principle, my main issue with this is suddenly having to trust shady 3rd party corps that will have your forms of ID saved for whatever
Haha yeah right, the ones with three kids, a free house and car? Yeah that would encourage goblins to look after their children
Parents having to parent their kids?
No, impossible, the government should do that for me
Proton free VPN or Tor browser…..kids are clever
This doesn’t seem like a meme.
Can’t possibly use parental controls properly, we instead have to legislate invasive policies which essentially compel citizens to hand over their data to random dubious companies with no vetting procedure.
Only the mentally feeble would believe that this was the right way to go compared to having parents do their jobs properly via interaction with ISPs. I’ve seen some useful idiots try to defend this but the arguments are intellectually dishonest and weak.
Not sure i understand why this is posted here? UK parents have already given up the control of their children to the state by allowing government to dictate content for the whole of the population.
I wonder what hoop the government will make everyone jump through next 🤔
something will break soon. the people are tired of evil governments
I don’t agree. What’s wrong with seeing naked bodies? What harm does this cause children or adults? It’s just an excuse for parents who don’t want to ever have to talk about it. They are afraid of their child asking them about it.
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Parental controls are built into Windows, ChromeOS, Android, Xbox, Playstation and Switch.
Instead of trying to control the internet, they should have spent a fraction of that money on an education campaign teaching parents that these things exist and they’re incredibly easy to use.
Spend a little more on encouraging companies to unify these controls for even easier use. (EU would be better positioned to do this too)
But that wouldn’t give the government control over what you, as an adult, see. That’s the real reason.
What annoys me is that they keep talking about this like it’s the most simple thing in the world where in fact every single part of this situation is extremely complicated. So either they don’t understand how complicated this is, or they are hoping that the general public doesn’t understand.
USE PARENTAL CONTROLS
We run a VPN here for whole house, so online act does not even work to do anything here. My kids have already told me about friends getting around blocks by just asking grandparent’s or other friends. ISP’s in the UK have a mandatory “ON” restricted content policy you have to ask to turn off covering the whole net. A better solution is learn to use parental controls and teach your kids better. This was never about the kids though was it. It was about further laws down the road. Things such as “they can use this to get around this, lets ban it”.
Ironically the people who are most likely to be restricted are the tech illiterate and older people who don’t understand it.
Kids know most things about technology today. They are using iPads from 5 years old in many families. It’ll be the kids who use a VPN and get access to whatever they want in a matter of minutes.
Who is this law even supposed to be for? To stop toddlers accessing pornhub? Because it’s definitely not for young teenagers.
one of the main arguments on the other side is that parents don’t know how to setup filters and parental controls… so how about the government enforces ISPs to have adult sites blocked on their routers by default and then parents have to turn it off themselves or set times for it to be unblocked? my reasoning is that parents would be much more willing to learn how to unblock things than block things, especially when it comes to home wifi routers, as they might want to watch porn themselves. it would take one google search for the parents to look up how to change the filters on their router (usually via an app or webapp). they’re far more likely to have the incentive to learn about these things if it’s for their own benefit.
or we could have a system for kids’ devices – when you setup your kid’s phone and put in their age (which won’t be verified, it’s the parent putting in the age why would they lie), the parental controls block adult sites by default.
Agreed children shouldn’t have access to adult content. But this is down bad parenting not blocking access to this stuff on children’s devices. The government enforcing this on all of the public is not the answer.
It’s easy they use comp where you can look over there shoulder easy
Sadly, children are often much more educated than their parents on online safety. Like parents who are not knowledgeable enough to know their kid is using a VPN to access porn and stuff. The likely result will be an even worse situation because parents think the government is doing their job.
Just enforce isp to auto restrict adult content but leave it so an adult / account holder can revert the changes.
You know like a mobile phone plan .
But it’s not about that. It’s about control and monitoring what you see, believe and think.
This will be used to block lgbt+ sites
At least this forces kids to smarten up and figure out how to use a vpn, if they want that wank
Considering half the sites don’t adhere to it makes it basically useless well done wanky starmer slow clap
I can see the resulting Community Notes, direct retweets and so on being utilised massively by everyone else…
Sure, Britain and Australia might’ve bought the farm, but they’re learning examples that you don’t want and quite frankly, I’d fully support tech companies championing their parental controls for children more than the current (Oh we have them in addition). I feel they should be showcasing them in adverts for the parents more, as I don’t think I can get away with given my kid a Nokia brick.
It would be quite easy to help parents manage their children’s online activity if Google, Apple and Microsoft allowed proper parental control.
That includes NOT reducing or stopping parental control at the age of 13.
They are still legally children, still under parental control, still cannot access adult content at the age of 13, so WHY the fuck do the major OS providers think it’s ok to reduce parental control at that age?
Parents should be empowered to take control and responsibility of what their children access.
Otherwise it’s just an excuse for control and potential data grabbing from the government.
WHAT THE FUCK IS A PARENTAL CONTROLS!!
I WANT TO BE PUT IN (REDACTED) CAMPS MADE BY THE GOVERMENT
It’s also being used to censor child friendly lgbtq+ content
On principle, my main issue with this is suddenly having to trust shady 3rd party corps that will have your forms of ID saved for whatever
Haha yeah right, the ones with three kids, a free house and car? Yeah that would encourage goblins to look after their children
Parents having to parent their kids?
No, impossible, the government should do that for me
Proton free VPN or Tor browser…..kids are clever
This doesn’t seem like a meme.
Can’t possibly use parental controls properly, we instead have to legislate invasive policies which essentially compel citizens to hand over their data to random dubious companies with no vetting procedure.
Only the mentally feeble would believe that this was the right way to go compared to having parents do their jobs properly via interaction with ISPs. I’ve seen some useful idiots try to defend this but the arguments are intellectually dishonest and weak.
Not sure i understand why this is posted here? UK parents have already given up the control of their children to the state by allowing government to dictate content for the whole of the population.
I wonder what hoop the government will make everyone jump through next 🤔
something will break soon. the people are tired of evil governments
I don’t agree. What’s wrong with seeing naked bodies? What harm does this cause children or adults? It’s just an excuse for parents who don’t want to ever have to talk about it. They are afraid of their child asking them about it.
Just download a VPN to wank
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