These laws don’t help when it’s insanely easy to install VPN clients on pretty much any device kids have access to. I have Adguard Home on our home network with the malicious and adult websites blocked. But still had a conversation with my kids about porn. And it turns out one of them had already been using a VPN on his phone and PC to bypass the local restrictions. We talked about it more, about being a good and safe “netizen” while discussing how unhealthy porn can be. I’m not anti-porn, but there is a lot of mistreatment of the people making it and can lead to some unhealthy misconceptions about sex and intimacy.
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peregus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I agree with what you say, but how can we prevent kids to use those websites? Todays parents are too IT ignorant and they don’t know that they can protect their kids by using tools that they already have (parental control on smartphones and routers). So, how do we protect those kids? Pornography (for example) can do huge damage to kids.
Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Todays parents? No. The Boomer/Gen X parents of Millennials were also incredibly IT ignorant.
peregus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know, but what were the risks there? There was no Internet! The firsts with wide Internet access were the late millennials.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I don’t know what you lived through, but there was wider internet access in the late 90s and early 00s that caused widespread panic amongst the boomers when I was a kid (born early 90s). What surprises me more is that so many millennials have grown up to be just like their parents in that regard.
peregus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In fact I wrote:
which seems to be you.