Mandate sane, and strong, parental control over devices.
Devices for minors should require, by law, a caregiver’s device be paired with it. That caregiver gets to set access to websites or apps by white or blacklist with a bunch of sane, easy to use, default lists. When the kid hits 16 they can have an adult device, at which point they have hopefully been taught how to safely use the web over the previous decade.
App developers and websites found to bypass these controls face legal action at a federal level, and lazy or negligent parents still have the option to give their kid a blacklist with 0 entries.
This will seriously mess up open source operating systems and simple devices. I think major OS vendors can and should add parental controls to their devices, but it should not ve mandated by law.
I can see requiring ISPs to provide free DNS filtering for parents to use, but again it needs to be put on corporations that are selling, not a blanket rule that individuals need to somehow figure out how to comply with.
Linux based OSs should be able to implement this more easily than Windows. The caregiver user has permissions higher than the child user, and is given a set of special tools for content control. Root remains root. In Android the situation would be similar.
iOS and MacOS can go pound sand.
I like the DNS solution, that’s a pretty reasonable way to provide granular control over web access.
Mandate sane, and strong, parental control over devices.
Devices for minors should require, by law, a caregiver’s device be paired with it. That caregiver gets to set access to websites or apps by white or blacklist with a bunch of sane, easy to use, default lists. When the kid hits 16 they can have an adult device, at which point they have hopefully been taught how to safely use the web over the previous decade.
App developers and websites found to bypass these controls face legal action at a federal level, and lazy or negligent parents still have the option to give their kid a blacklist with 0 entries.
This will seriously mess up open source operating systems and simple devices. I think major OS vendors can and should add parental controls to their devices, but it should not ve mandated by law.
I can see requiring ISPs to provide free DNS filtering for parents to use, but again it needs to be put on corporations that are selling, not a blanket rule that individuals need to somehow figure out how to comply with.
Linux based OSs should be able to implement this more easily than Windows. The caregiver user has permissions higher than the child user, and is given a set of special tools for content control. Root remains root. In Android the situation would be similar.
iOS and MacOS can go pound sand.
I like the DNS solution, that’s a pretty reasonable way to provide granular control over web access.