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by justonepost 3028 days ago
A better way would be to require all browser makers or OS makers add an easy to use child protection filter that can be easily enabled by parents.

This is a serious issue and while the OP bill is obvious censorship, all parents want more easy control.
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orangecat 3028 days ago
A better way would be to require all browser makers or OS makers add an easy to use child protection filter that can be easily enabled by parents.

That's still a bad idea, unless we want to criminalize a whole lot of existing software. Suppose I have a Python script that parses HTML from a URL and downloads all the images it finds. Would that be illegal to distribute unless I hook into the OS-level filters? For that matter, what about Python itself?

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interfixus 3028 days ago
> * all parents want more easy control*

Refuted. I am a parent. I do not want 'more easy control'.

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justonepost 3028 days ago
Really? You don't want to be able to easily ensure that your pre-teens aren't able to easily access violent porn?

Alright, I guess "all" is little hyperbolic. But I think the sentiment stands firm.

I also think we need to avoid censorship as much as possible, and ensure parents have more control by default is the best path forward. Otherwise we'll end up with a solution like the UK has where age registration has to be done by everyone.

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jononor 3028 days ago
Aren't there hundreds of parental control applications available out there already?
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