Surely there’s a way to protect children and teenagers from being exposed to such content that doesn’t involve such overreaching bans and surveillance. I’m all for protecting the kids and impressionable teens and against violence towards women, but straight up bans and online IDs seem counterproductive.
Yeah, but this is the UK we’re talking about. Where we only care about funding domestic violence shelters, if it means that doing so also harms trans people
I don’t think such an approach could ever be made. If you want to block specific people from seeing specific things, then you have to detect their identity, which on its own, is a massive privacy violation.
The only thing I can think of is a mass education campaign about parental controls on phones and tablets, and schools only allowing kids to use devices with parental controls enabled, while making the parental controls on phones and routers easier to use.
But kids will always find a way around that. And parents are lazy or don’t understand these things (parenting is very difficult, so I can’t blame them much).
I don’t think a Chinese style great firewall can work in countries like the UK.
Surely there’s a way to protect children and teenagers from being exposed to such content that doesn’t involve such overreaching bans and surveillance. I’m all for protecting the kids and impressionable teens and against violence towards women, but straight up bans and online IDs seem counterproductive.
Goverments should invest all that effort and money into laws and financing programs to help and protect victims of abuse.
Yeah, but this is the UK we’re talking about. Where we only care about funding domestic violence shelters, if it means that doing so also harms trans people
I don’t think such an approach could ever be made. If you want to block specific people from seeing specific things, then you have to detect their identity, which on its own, is a massive privacy violation.
The only thing I can think of is a mass education campaign about parental controls on phones and tablets, and schools only allowing kids to use devices with parental controls enabled, while making the parental controls on phones and routers easier to use.
But kids will always find a way around that. And parents are lazy or don’t understand these things (parenting is very difficult, so I can’t blame them much).
I don’t think a Chinese style great firewall can work in countries like the UK.