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by orangecat 3032 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?