It’s not the government’s job to parent someone’s children… Parents should take the time to learn about how computers and the internet work at a sufficient level so they can both teach their children how to act and what to expect on the internet, and to control what their child sees on the internet. The former is a backup in case the latter does not work.
Totally, most people with young kids now grew up with the internet. It’s not a great unknown to them what’s out there for their kids to find and they should take their own measures to block that. It’s not the 90s anymore.
I guess most peoples concern is that it means storage of their information somewhere in a database to allow the access. You may have got IDed buying physical porn back in the day, but the bloke in shop wasn’t taking a scan of your ID and putting you on a list of people who’d brought some grot.
While the idea of protecting children is admirable, at what point does it become a state issue rather than a parental one. There’s ways to control and limit what a connected device can view and those tools should be used before we go for the nuclear option. As a millenial with boomer parents, and the wild west nature of the internet in the 90s I can understand the situation meant my parents couldn’t really be expected to understand it all. If you’re a gen X/millenial with kids now, you should understand tech enough to sort this out yourself.
It’s not the government’s job to parent someone’s children… Parents should take the time to learn about how computers and the internet work at a sufficient level so they can both teach their children how to act and what to expect on the internet, and to control what their child sees on the internet. The former is a backup in case the latter does not work.
Totally, most people with young kids now grew up with the internet. It’s not a great unknown to them what’s out there for their kids to find and they should take their own measures to block that. It’s not the 90s anymore.
I guess most peoples concern is that it means storage of their information somewhere in a database to allow the access. You may have got IDed buying physical porn back in the day, but the bloke in shop wasn’t taking a scan of your ID and putting you on a list of people who’d brought some grot.
While the idea of protecting children is admirable, at what point does it become a state issue rather than a parental one. There’s ways to control and limit what a connected device can view and those tools should be used before we go for the nuclear option. As a millenial with boomer parents, and the wild west nature of the internet in the 90s I can understand the situation meant my parents couldn’t really be expected to understand it all. If you’re a gen X/millenial with kids now, you should understand tech enough to sort this out yourself.