There is no need for this because PARENTAL CONTROLS EXIST.
To be honest, every year, it's becoming more and more impossible for parents to control anything.
Phone access? They are everywhere, and old / bad ones can be bought for cheap because most people only want the latest version and throw / sell their old ones.
Internet access? Yeah you can restrict your router, but internet is accessible almost everywhere now, school, universities, airports, libraries, or even the neighbor's unprotected WiFi. What's stopping a kid from using internet somewhere else, without the parent ever knowing about it?
Internet history? Again, if the kid is using something like a smartphone and 5G, or someone else's internet, it won't pass through your router, so you have no idea what site they got in.
Parental codes? They were always very easy to crack. An attentive children will easily spot which numbers the parent presses, or brute force it while the parent is busy somewhere else.
I'm not excusing the parents doing a poor job, but I know that if I were a father myself, I would have a LOT of troubles keeping the restrictions up and actually efficient (and that's coming from a computer guy / programmer).
Yeah, I think it's almost impossible to stop kids from getting where you don't want them as a parent. Even if you never give them a phone, if they go to public school they will use their friends' unlocked phones. I can guarantee not every kid in school has a dumbphone or a locked-down phone.
No it won't. This won't be any more effective than the DMCA was at stamping out piracy. Porn sites will get scraped, bundled, and torrented.
If the goal is to reduce the profits that porn makes, it will have some impact. If the goal is to actually block underage exposure? Not a chance in hell it works.
And pretending it will work just turns it into an anti-anonymity arms race until you need a government-controlled camera watching you to open an IP connection and that still won't work.
Making it inconvenient is sometimes enough to at least mitigate most of the damage.
And a lot of places like libraries and universities have their own blocks in place. VPN's cost money. You can restrict data use on phone plans.
And while sure, they might be able to get some limited access from a friend's phone, they're not exactly going to be able to binge-watch through that kind of setup without it being really weird.
Making it "inconvenient" is far from enough though. You could argue the magazines era was pretty inconvenient (had to find someone able to get those, then find someplace to hide them everytime), that didn't stop many kids from trying.
Do you really trust schools and universities to have strong blockers, when you see the state of the modern education system? They generally have the worst IT support possible.
Some VPN are free, which is an even bigger danger, cause they are extremely questionable with terrible security (generally on purpose).
Phones can access WiFi and be used without data plans.
When I see some Redditors willing to travel just to give HRT and stuff to minors, I don't think granting access to porn is that far-fetched, especially when you consider how normalised it has become.
To be honest, every year, it's becoming more and more impossible for parents to control anything.
Phone access? They are everywhere, and old / bad ones can be bought for cheap because most people only want the latest version and throw / sell their old ones.
Internet access? Yeah you can restrict your router, but internet is accessible almost everywhere now, school, universities, airports, libraries, or even the neighbor's unprotected WiFi. What's stopping a kid from using internet somewhere else, without the parent ever knowing about it?
Internet history? Again, if the kid is using something like a smartphone and 5G, or someone else's internet, it won't pass through your router, so you have no idea what site they got in.
Parental codes? They were always very easy to crack. An attentive children will easily spot which numbers the parent presses, or brute force it while the parent is busy somewhere else.
I'm not excusing the parents doing a poor job, but I know that if I were a father myself, I would have a LOT of troubles keeping the restrictions up and actually efficient (and that's coming from a computer guy / programmer).
Yeah, I think it's almost impossible to stop kids from getting where you don't want them as a parent. Even if you never give them a phone, if they go to public school they will use their friends' unlocked phones. I can guarantee not every kid in school has a dumbphone or a locked-down phone.
Almost impossible. Except this system will. And people here are crying about it.
No it won't. This won't be any more effective than the DMCA was at stamping out piracy. Porn sites will get scraped, bundled, and torrented.
If the goal is to reduce the profits that porn makes, it will have some impact. If the goal is to actually block underage exposure? Not a chance in hell it works.
And pretending it will work just turns it into an anti-anonymity arms race until you need a government-controlled camera watching you to open an IP connection and that still won't work.
Making it inconvenient is sometimes enough to at least mitigate most of the damage.
And a lot of places like libraries and universities have their own blocks in place. VPN's cost money. You can restrict data use on phone plans.
And while sure, they might be able to get some limited access from a friend's phone, they're not exactly going to be able to binge-watch through that kind of setup without it being really weird.
Making it "inconvenient" is far from enough though. You could argue the magazines era was pretty inconvenient (had to find someone able to get those, then find someplace to hide them everytime), that didn't stop many kids from trying.
Do you really trust schools and universities to have strong blockers, when you see the state of the modern education system? They generally have the worst IT support possible.
Some VPN are free, which is an even bigger danger, cause they are extremely questionable with terrible security (generally on purpose).
Phones can access WiFi and be used without data plans.
When I see some Redditors willing to travel just to give HRT and stuff to minors, I don't think granting access to porn is that far-fetched, especially when you consider how normalised it has become.
Like how only major porn sites are blocked if at all, while there is nothing stoping kids from looking at pornographic art sites?