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I think it's really important to protect children from this type of content. I'm not necessarily against these kinds of blocks but I don't think they'll be effe

I think it's really important to protect children from this type of content. I'm not necessarily against these kinds of blocks but I don't think they'll be effective because there will always be extremely easy ways to bypass them (use a VPN, find a website that isn't beholden to US laws, etc etc etc). IMO the best approach is to ensure parents are technically competent and knowledgeable enough to be able to configure effective parental controls on all of their children's devices that are difficult to circumvent. E.g. iOS already has iCloud Lock which has proven to be difficult to bypass even with bootROM exploits and jailbreaks. Perhaps they should expand this level of protection to parental controls (if it isn't already).

out-of-ideas 4y ago
yup agreed; parental controls and parental knowledge is the key here. if you want the kids, take the responsibility and due diligence to keep them in check
Thetawaves 4y ago
Why are you driven to control the information consumed by your children?
- _-david-_ 4y ago
  Surely you agree that certain content should not be consumed by children? Do you believe a 5 year old should be watching a gang bang?
  - Thetawaves 4y ago
    Why would a child watch a gang bang? I worry about vile content targeted toward children. I worry about these things showing up on his youtube feed, not a porn website.
    - Thetawaves 4y ago
      And actually I'm not terribly concerned about sexual depictions anyway - thats the basic human condition.
    - _-david-_ 4y ago
      >Why would a child watch a gang bang? Because they accidentally ran across a link and clicked on it. YouTube comments are filled with links to porn / non age appropriate material for example. >I worry about vile content targeted toward children. As do I. But I don't think targeting is necessarily the issue here. PornHub does target to children though. Their Instagram had a post about children watching porn for example. >I worry about these things showing up on his youtube feed, not a porn website. It isn't hard to mistype YouTube and since many pornsites have the word "tube" in them it wouldn't be hard to imagine they could get to a porn site.
      - Thetawaves 4y ago
        I do not see what an instagram post has to do with putting porn in children's content feeds, thats a non-sequitur. The fact that a website has 'tube' in it is yet another non-sequitur. It does not follow.
        _-david-_ 4y ago
        I don't think you are following my points likely due to me not explaining it well. Kids can easily access porn on accident. That is all my point is. We should make it easy to prevent kids from seeing it. Pornhub was on Instagram and so kids could get to PornHub's page and view content directed to kids about porn. I think banning Pornhub from Instagram was the right choice and helps prevent putting adult related content on a kid's feed. My point about tube being in other websites is when you google YouTube you may end up with a porn site if you have a typo. Kids, in an attempt to go to child friendly content on YouTube may end up on a porn site just by accident.

out-of-ideas 4y ago

yup agreed; parental controls and parental knowledge is the key here. if you want the kids, take the responsibility and due diligence to keep them in check

Thetawaves 4y ago

Why are you driven to control the information consumed by your children?

_-david-_ 4y ago
Surely you agree that certain content should not be consumed by children? Do you believe a 5 year old should be watching a gang bang?
- Thetawaves 4y ago
  Why would a child watch a gang bang? I worry about vile content targeted toward children. I worry about these things showing up on his youtube feed, not a porn website.
  - Thetawaves 4y ago
    And actually I'm not terribly concerned about sexual depictions anyway - thats the basic human condition.
  - _-david-_ 4y ago
    >Why would a child watch a gang bang? Because they accidentally ran across a link and clicked on it. YouTube comments are filled with links to porn / non age appropriate material for example. >I worry about vile content targeted toward children. As do I. But I don't think targeting is necessarily the issue here. PornHub does target to children though. Their Instagram had a post about children watching porn for example. >I worry about these things showing up on his youtube feed, not a porn website. It isn't hard to mistype YouTube and since many pornsites have the word "tube" in them it wouldn't be hard to imagine they could get to a porn site.
    - Thetawaves 4y ago
      I do not see what an instagram post has to do with putting porn in children's content feeds, thats a non-sequitur. The fact that a website has 'tube' in it is yet another non-sequitur. It does not follow.
      - _-david-_ 4y ago
        I don't think you are following my points likely due to me not explaining it well. Kids can easily access porn on accident. That is all my point is. We should make it easy to prevent kids from seeing it. Pornhub was on Instagram and so kids could get to PornHub's page and view content directed to kids about porn. I think banning Pornhub from Instagram was the right choice and helps prevent putting adult related content on a kid's feed. My point about tube being in other websites is when you google YouTube you may end up with a porn site if you have a typo. Kids, in an attempt to go to child friendly content on YouTube may end up on a porn site just by accident.