Heavy-handed web regulations are pushing us toward a dystopian future. Shifting filtering directly to the router level fixes the problem without forcing adults to hand over sensitive ID data.
Keyword filtering is complementary to but not a replacement for age tags. The problem with keywords is they are:
practically infinite, and thus almost impossible to keep on top of an allow/blocklist - you have to be technically savvy and well informed (which does not describe most of the population) to manage a tag list
basically saying you can just ignore laws you disagree with on content access
I agree that there should be more responsibility on parents not governments to decide what their kids can/cannot have access to, but I also am not full libertarian on this view - there is content that is well documented as being clinically inappropriate for children to access and should eb regulated IMO.
Just like we have seat belt or helmet laws, smoking/drinking ages, etc. not everything should be up for people to “do their own research” on, and negligent parents should not be giving their children carte blanche access to the internet.
Keyword filtering is complementary to but not a replacement for age tags. The problem with keywords is they are:
practically infinite, and thus almost impossible to keep on top of an allow/blocklist - you have to be technically savvy and well informed (which does not describe most of the population) to manage a tag list
basically saying you can just ignore laws you disagree with on content access
I agree that there should be more responsibility on parents not governments to decide what their kids can/cannot have access to, but I also am not full libertarian on this view - there is content that is well documented as being clinically inappropriate for children to access and should eb regulated IMO.
Just like we have seat belt or helmet laws, smoking/drinking ages, etc. not everything should be up for people to “do their own research” on, and negligent parents should not be giving their children carte blanche access to the internet.