Seems like a waste of time. Twitter, Snapchat, Reddit, Facebook etc all host porn. Unless they’re going to age restrict social media as well?
You will have more chance holding back the tide than stopping curious kids watching porn. I guess it could be made more difficult though, at least that way they could learn some IT skills as an added benefit.
As a first step how about, and bear with me there is a lot to unpack here, parents start to _parent_?
The basic measures to keep porn from the door are pathetically simple. Most ISP provide a block service that it literally one click. After that, one could pay for a further service (probably along with your anti-virus sub), one could install controls on to the child’s device accounts, or all three.
There is more than could be done, but them’re the basics.
Tories have tried this before and failed. Let’s hope they don’t try again. Instead they should focus on pressuring the police to arrest the foreign sex traffickers who rape our children.
Some countries ✲cough✲ the United States ✲cough✲ consider women in bikinis/lingerie and nudity to be pornography, so what qualifies here?
Must admit my opinion of the charities involved in this is incredibly low… How can they seriously claim to be in favour of protecting kids from the harms of pornography (which I agree is a problem), yet so spectacularly fail to understand how it can, or rather, can’t, be addressed.
Their intent on focussing on a strategy everyone knows is doomed to failure, even if it were introduced, is an utter failure to pursue their stated objectives.
“causing lifelong trauma”
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The only trauma I recieved viewing porn as a kid was excitedly finding a porno mag in the bushes outside Tesco only for it to be a reader’s wives issue featuring predominantly overweight 50+ year old women.
Porn age verification is pretty much only good for Mindgeek (Pornhub owners) because they have a platform they license out for it to other sites.
As someone now 23 who grew up with internet porn it really is not that big a deal. Violence in society used to be orders of magnitude more common, hell we had kids working in sweatshops for centuries. Children are surprisingly resilient and looking at some porn on the internet is not the end of the world nor ideal.
Any sensible parent can put the controls in place and have a frank discussion about the realities of porn with their kids. At that point there is not much more to do beyond ensuring good access to sexual education.
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Seems like a waste of time. Twitter, Snapchat, Reddit, Facebook etc all host porn. Unless they’re going to age restrict social media as well?
You will have more chance holding back the tide than stopping curious kids watching porn. I guess it could be made more difficult though, at least that way they could learn some IT skills as an added benefit.
As a first step how about, and bear with me there is a lot to unpack here, parents start to _parent_?
The basic measures to keep porn from the door are pathetically simple. Most ISP provide a block service that it literally one click. After that, one could pay for a further service (probably along with your anti-virus sub), one could install controls on to the child’s device accounts, or all three.
There is more than could be done, but them’re the basics.
Tories have tried this before and failed. Let’s hope they don’t try again. Instead they should focus on pressuring the police to arrest the foreign sex traffickers who rape our children.
Some countries ✲cough✲ the United States ✲cough✲ consider women in bikinis/lingerie and nudity to be pornography, so what qualifies here?
Must admit my opinion of the charities involved in this is incredibly low… How can they seriously claim to be in favour of protecting kids from the harms of pornography (which I agree is a problem), yet so spectacularly fail to understand how it can, or rather, can’t, be addressed.
Their intent on focussing on a strategy everyone knows is doomed to failure, even if it were introduced, is an utter failure to pursue their stated objectives.
“causing lifelong trauma”
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​
The only trauma I recieved viewing porn as a kid was excitedly finding a porno mag in the bushes outside Tesco only for it to be a reader’s wives issue featuring predominantly overweight 50+ year old women.
Porn age verification is pretty much only good for Mindgeek (Pornhub owners) because they have a platform they license out for it to other sites.
As someone now 23 who grew up with internet porn it really is not that big a deal. Violence in society used to be orders of magnitude more common, hell we had kids working in sweatshops for centuries. Children are surprisingly resilient and looking at some porn on the internet is not the end of the world nor ideal.
Any sensible parent can put the controls in place and have a frank discussion about the realities of porn with their kids. At that point there is not much more to do beyond ensuring good access to sexual education.