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by pocksuppet 104 days ago
Why would you want to censor based on network? You don't want to censor based on network, you want to censor based on device. If your 8yo kid is blocked from pornhub, that doesn't mean everyone on your network is blocked from pornhub, and you having the ability to even know if someone on your network is browsing pornhub is a security risk.
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ndriscoll 104 days ago
Because consumer devices are barely if at all capable of even setting policy, are basically incapable of enforcing it, and are generally adversarial. It's also easy to apply different policies to different clients at the network level.
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pocksuppet 104 days ago
The new California and Colorado laws force consumer devices to be capable of setting and enforcing policy.
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ndriscoll 104 days ago
They do not. Here's the California bill[0]. Here's the Colorado bill[1]. They're short. Nowhere is there something about letting me set policy (e.g. blocking applications/services, presenting plaintext traffic to filtering software, setting time-of-use restrictions, etc.). In fact, it requires my operating system to give any application developer PII about me and requires the application to collect it, even when it's irrelevant (functionality is not age-restricted).

Or did you have some other laws in mind?

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

[1] https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112795/download

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