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    People ‘will find a way’ to harmful content – teens

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    1. MM_83_ on

      Maybe so but it doesn’t mean we should make it easier for them. Doing nothing and giving them free access is sick and rife for addiction.

      Some options could be compulsory digital IDs linked to all Internet users names, make VPNs illegal for personal use and fines for their parents

    2. Optimaldeath on

      I’m sure the parents pushing all this shit know it’s unworkable and just want the government to take responsibility for it so they don’t have to.

      It doesn’t matter how strict access is in your own home if the child(ren) eventually have to interface with people outside of it and any amount of overcoddling is almost certain to backfire. I think maybe the only sensible course of action is expecting it and having a candid discussion about it.

    3. Electricbell20 on

      Of course they will.

      Same thing happens with drugs, cigs, alcohol.

      Does anyone think it’s good idea to remove age restriction on alcohol because there are a few kids who know the guy in the offy. No.

      The purpose is harm reduction, not elimination. Elimination is very difficult.

      Also, has anyone seen the tech skills of these teens, unless it’s in a flashy UX, they aren’t finding anything.

    4. Coupaholic_ on

      Just have a conversation with your children.

      If you provide answers, they won’t go online to look for them.

    5. _Originz__ on

      I think the issue is rather than confront the issue directly we’re skirting around it and trying to implement useless safeguards against it. Like why not spend time teaching your child the advantages of mobile devices and what they can be used for?

      I mean the tech illiteracy of the general populace is inexcusable, there definitely should be classes around using devices responsibly and so on rather than treating phones like some scourge. The real scourge is the corporations peddling the social media drugs

    6. NeilSilva93 on

      Considering the recent hacks and theft of customer data from M&S and Coop there’s no way in hell I’m signing up for some online digital ID to view adult content. Fuck that. VPN all the way.

    8. Affectionate_War_279 on

      We should just leave vials of fentanyl and crack cocaine around every street corner as the kids will just find a way to get drugs.

    9. jordanh517 on

      They are just furthering a system where legitimate access to things becomes harder, to appear to be doing something.

      Strong controls on your home network, and limiting unrestricted screen time is the only way to keep children safe online, but parents either don’t know how, or can’t be bothered.

      Knives are in a similar situation, it’s now a bigger pain for an adult to buy a kitchen knife, but the little fucks who go around stabbing people will still just steal one from a shop like nothing has changed.

    10. homelaberator on

      They say this, but people in authoritarian regimes tend not to seek out banned content. China basically made a walled garden for the whole country and consequently, most Chinese aren’t out on the wild web.

      So, if you make it progressively harder to access the content and there’s alternative content available, you will see a significant reduction.

    11. homelaberator on

      It’s surprising this is as controversial as it is. TV has a watershed and regulation on content, advertising is regulated, newspapers, films have ratings, there are restrictions on where physical media pornography can be sold and what content is permitted etc etc

      The golden age of “free and open” internet was over once the regular public discovered Facebook and YouTube.

    12. pajamakitten on

      Which is why education should be more important than age verification, alongside finding the companies for not doing more to get harmful content off their platforms. That does not mean that other measures are not important either though; every little helps

    13. EndeavourToFreefall on

      I read a comment on this subject a long time ago which changed my perspective on these moderately easily bypassable online safety measures, and that was that having to bypass a restriction at the very least indicates that the content being accessed requires some extra consideration. It won’t stop people from accessing content they’re underage for, it’s incredibly easy to do so and always will be, but it might normalise the consumption of certain content a bit less.

    15. throwaway_ArBe on

      A pointless exercise that will achieve only data breaches and not actually protect anyone.

    16. BornSlippy2 on

      The question is who is deciding what’s harmful and what’s not.

      In Poland, previous government were using anti-terrorist spying software to spy on political opposition. Why not add few extra forbidden tags and win elections?

      I’m not saying the idea is wrong. I’m saying the technical aspect can have a massive potency for abuse.

      Not saying it’s parents job to prepare their offspring for dangers of the world. They can’t push everything on the system.

    17. darkmatters2501 on

      The end result is we will go back to having a generation of tech smart teenagers.