There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.
This isn’t a government issue. This is a bad parent issue. How about instead forcing routers to have easy ways to block adult content?
Technically pretty much every router does have built in porn blocking, the problem is is that it’s across the board.
With these routers it’s almost always All or nothing.
It’s also slightly complicated to set up in the first place, and the grand majority of people will not spend more than 10 seconds setting up any technology unless they absolutely have to.
Most people will not go through the process of finding out what the IP address of their router is, attempting to log into it with the default passwords available on the internet, navigating through the HTML 1.0 1993 interface to find the section that allows them to enable parental controls and then enabling them.
As a person who doesn’t have and chooses to not ever have children, it does my head in everytime a government tries to pass laws to stop children getting access to things, instead of making the parents, the people whose job it is to raise the children, take responsibility. I agree tho that router manufacturers should be forced to give easy access to parents to block unwanted sites.
They’re trying to ban vapes in Australia, not because of “health” reasons, but because kids are getting access to them, so instead of making adults accountable, they’re just trying to blanket ban, I’m sick of being punished because shitty parents can’t do their fucking job.
Raise your God damn kids yourself, stop relying on the government to do it for you.