[Falkvinge]

The idea that "parental controls" are needed is contradictory to the entire philosophy of Open Source and Free Software. Parental controls - or, as it should be called, parental censorship - is a "feature" that treats the user as an ADVERSARY.

It belongs in the exact same category of "features" as mandatory wiretapping on telecom networks and mandatory tracking on cellphones, and other inventions that treat the user as an adversary. It also belongs in the trashcan.

To people who want this to babysit their kids - no, you don't get to abdicate your parenting to a piece of code doing censorship.

[calpaterson]

You've conflated owners and users. FOSS movements are advocating owners' rights, and only users' rights when the "real" owner of a piece of software or a computer has been demoted to a user.

That's why FOSS software like NFS respects file permissions, and web servers include HTTP-Auth.

[voyou]

Yes, much like "passwords" and "file permissions." Good thing Ubuntu doesn't support either of those anti-freedom "features."