Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 6 days ago
They can come and pry TOR from my cold dead hands lmfao
this law can eat shit. i ain’t gonna dox myself and feed my personal info to companies. maybe they should take this as a hint that most people care about their privacy
if you don’t want kids seeing NSFW stuff be an actual parent and don’t raise your kids on the internet??
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Yeah I’m Australia we have just decided to ban all social media for people under 16, i think it’s great honestly because screw from insta etc but I don’t think it’s the government ls job to prevent kids from using social media.
I really think it’s a way to force adults to register their id to accounts not about protecting kids.
Parents should monitor what their kids are doing not the government
magickrock@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
I agree that it should primarily be a parents responsibility to keep kids off social media. But the big problem with social media is that a large proportion of young children don’t want to be on social media and recognise the detrimental impact it has on them, but the fear of missing out or being excluded is what keeps them on it. it then becomes a collective action problem, to get them off it you need to get a lot of their peers off it as well. There are movements where groups of parents try to do this, but reaching the critical mass necessary to do it is difficult.
Hopefully the ban keeps a large number off to reduce the pressure on kids to be on it and at the same time the parents can do their bit as well.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 days ago
While I agree wholeheartedly with this, it’s often not that easy.
Back in the days of 28.8 modems my parents found my little bro’s downloaded porn stash. It was in a Zip disk in his underwear drawer. They then locked down both of our AOL accounts so we couldn’t see that stuff.
I thought this was bullshit because I kept my Zip disk full of porn next to all the other ones and labeled it “Homework.” Why should I get punished if I didn’t get caught?
So I downloaded a keylogger, stole my dad’s password, and unlocked my account and continued to download porn.
However, I don’t think government regulation would have worked in my case.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 5 days ago
That’s the other issue, kids will find ways around it they always have when it comes to restrictions.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Tell some kid they get all the porn they want if they figure out fusion power and we’d have it in a fortnight.
Took me about that long to figure out how to boot up silently, resume downloads, and shutdown the pc before my dad woke up for work.