You do realize that age restrictions are only going to limit access to paid sites anyway. No age verification paywall on pornhub will prevent kids from finding porn on some random web site in Moldovia. That is just a reality of the internet. The existing filters available for for cell phone providers and Google WiFi are about as good as you are going to get.Josh wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:15 pmBecause I have multiple friends who were exposed to it at a young age, with a lot of damage from that. It really hurts young children. I have 2 friends who opened up to me and told me there were exposed at the age of 9 or 10. They simply had normal access to the Internet.
That doesn’t do anything about stuff that is free, which is what young children get exposed to.Paid pornography is already behind paywalls.
I don’t use TikTok and Instagram specifically because of a lot of the obscene material I have casually encountered there.And pornography is already banned from every major social media platform. Porn sites are also easily filtered. If you want your kids to live porn-free lives, then just let them stay on TikTok and Instagram full time. They will encounter no porn there.
I don’t think children should be using social media either.Every study and survey about the dangers of social media to children and teens doesn't even mention pornography. Porn doesn't even make the list. It is a whole lot of other concerns.
Here’s a better idea: stop having open access to pornography on the Internet. Make pornographers accountable just like tobacco companies are.And as far as blocking porn and adult content? I can easily do that on my kid's phones using the Verizon family control app. And I can also easily do it on my home network using Google's Family Web Option. And it is already blocked on their school WiFi and school Chromebooks. Is it perfect and 100%? No. But no government-run age-based ID system will be perfect either.
We used to let children freely buy tobacco and the tobacco industry first claimed it wasn’t harmful to kids, then claimed they didn’t market to kids, then claimed it would violate some kind of rights or freedoms to have strict age verification. All of these claims turned out to be false. We now have an orderly system where adults can purchase tobacco but children don’t have access to it.
The people you are calling "pornographers" are the people trying to make money off porn. They have robust paywalls already because they don't want free porn leaking out. All the free stuff you are complaining about it just stuff that random people have posted up to random web sites. It would be impossible to block all of that without turning off the entire internet or building an entirely government-run and government-filtered internet as they have in China. That's just the reality.