Comment on Child sexual extortion cases in the UK soar: Charities warn threat of sexual extortion (or sextortion) against children ‘not diminishing’ as new data show sextortion cases soar 72% in a year.

kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• omcgo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We have to look at hardware-level solution like VOOP

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  • Guilvareux@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ll go against the grain on this one, I actually think something akin to this is the right approach.

    “Protect the children” will have to go somewhere, it’s not going to just die. Getting a device with locked down access is better than the ridiculous changes to the internet that are being planned.

    This might not be the right implementation, but I think the idea is along the right lines… or at least, the least worst option.

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  • Blemgo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Though this solution also seems to be very flawed, doesn’t it? You basically trust another company to manage your child’s smartphone and granting it full access to it. Furthermore, that doesn’t stop predators, as they could still arrange meetups with their unknowing victims. And even if it captures text messages, kids would be discouraged to use their phone due to their fear of their parents disproving of their friends or their communication to them. Instead, they’d more likely learn the use of “burner phones” by getting a factory-reset phone and using that one instead.

    It’s the sort of ham-fisted attempt expected by parents that blame their kids for their mistakes instead of their parenting.

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• 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  awful act poorly written, thought through (!) and then implemented

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