[spicyusername]

I don't think it's a given that this can't be partly or mostly policed by parents if they were provided good tools to do so.

As it is all of the parental controls on all devices, apps, and services are extremely lackluster.

So I'd argue legally required, granular, parental controls and empowering parents would be a much better start to resolving this issue compared to blatant government privacy overreach.

[like_any_other]

Nonsense. They've already passed so many laws giving parents easy-to-use tools to manage their kids internet access, and other laws that make unlocking internet access for children that aren't yours just as illegal as buying them alcohol.

It was only after all of that failed, with no measurable effect, that our governments, reluctantly and as a last resort, proposed these privacy-destroying measures. And even then, they respected their citizens' rejection of these proposals [1].

I mean I didn't actually check that this is how it went, but with all the lecturing about "democracy" from our rulers, surely that's how they went about it, right?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707719

[LunicLynx]

I could accept that there shouldn’t be content for children on the internet, at all, to make this an easy sell.

Parents will not solve this. They would need to first care and then to be as tech savvy as the people in this forum. And then all the content would need to be attributed correctly. If if if, and here we are