[michaelt]

I don't have any children myself, but as I understand it in the modern age:

Your kid's smartphone can connect to home wifi, mobile data, public wifi, and friends' home wifi - so network filtering alone won't cut it. And 'Encrypted SNI', 'DNS over HTTPS' and Cloudflare makes network filtering much harder than it was 15 years ago.

On top of that, there's loads of porn posted on Reddit, Twitter, Twitch and suchlike. So any effective block is going to have a lot of collateral damage.

[wildzzz]

Use a DNS that has porn filtering along with any custom sites you don't want them accessing via the browser. You can even create your own MDM profile to prevent a kid from disabling the private DNS. There are sites that will set this up for you too. Furthermore, use parental controls to prevent installing apps without your permission, use the built-in features to limit screen time, and use tools offered by social media apps to limit usage. A super smart IT wizz kid may eventually figure it out but this will keep most kids from accessing inappropriate stuff.

[thephyber]

> On top of that, there's loads of porn posted on Reddit, Twitter, Twitch and suchlike. So any effective block is going to have a lot of collateral damage.

The Texas HB 1181 law only applies to websites which have content that is at least 1/3 porn. If Reddit doesn’t qualify for that requirement, then the Texas law doesn’t require ID verification.

There will always people who will arbitrage the gaps between the legal definition of something and the practical application. The blast radius of those kinds of issues always has been huge.