Easiest solution: point the fucking DNS to a family safe one and lock it behind passcode. Done.
How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet
Submitted 1 month ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240723-how-the-american-war-on-porn-could-change-your-internet
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umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Maybe they’re not really trying to protect children.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Good luck explaining this to congress
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Some of those fossils predate combination locks. Good luck educating them on anything built after the 14th century.
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
If they truly understand, we won’t have this shit now.
Plopp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What do you mean lock it behind a passcode? How?
ADTJ@feddit.uk 1 month ago
The router settings, require a password to change whether it’s in family safe mode or not
Esp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I mean tbf, I think if your kid is smart enough to work out they need to log into the router to change the DNS settings then they can probably figure out how to set it on their end device too. Unless you’re also blocking VPNs and non-dhcp directed DNS requests too.
I think the obvious solution is to force router makers to have a more user-friendly way to enable child-friendly features (we did that with TVs, why not the internet?) rather than forcing websites to either shutdown or do sketchy shit like take IDs. I work as a tech for an ISP, I assure you most people can’t figure out (or are barely able to even with instructions) how to change the default wifi, there’s no chance in hell you’re gonna explain to them how to point traffic to a custom dns.
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The main avenue of kids accessing the internet is via their smartphone. I’m not too knowledged into the functionality and capabilities of the built in parental by Google and Apple. Can anybody chime in and explain?
It will be nice to have somekind of MDM solutions, ideally free with a nice guided setup, for parents managing kid’s phone.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 month ago
Fuck America.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
American here. I approve.
Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But only after you’ve provided your ID.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 month ago
And at some point, they will blur the lines of what porn means, and bit by bit everything that meant something to you will be banned until nothing is left but what they like.
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
They’re already trying to label trans people simply existing as porn
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 month ago
History is quite unoriginal.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 1 month ago
After war on drugs failed you got to spend all that anger on something and find a new enemy.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The war on drugs didn’t fail. It’s an ongoing failure.
ahornsirup@feddit.org 1 month ago
Looking at it from the outside it doesn’t look like a failure at all, it provides the prison industrial complex with an endless stream of
slavescheap prison labour. If we assume that that’s the actual goal, it’s a resounding success.
androogee@midwest.social 1 month ago
War on healthcare ain’t getting them off anymore, but war on food security has a promising future
kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Maybe there will be less and less reasons to use internet at all.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 1 month ago
An optimist, huh?
DancingBear@midwest.social 1 month ago
Who needs porn with articles like this
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Morons, all of them. You’re not getting that genie back in the bottle.
I grew up pre-internet and still found plenty of porn, as did the hypocrites making these laws.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Can’t wait to start looking for flash drives in roadside hedges 😂
azimir@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
There was some way to either steal a “dirty” magazine, buy one from an older teenager, or check out the one you found at your friend’s house that his dad had in a drawer somewhere.
If all else failed, there was always the Sears catalog.
Pitching your desire to block pornography against the collective sex drives of the whole populace is a recipe for you losing and look stupid doing it.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 month ago
I mean there is a difference between the good old magazines and having access to super hardcore stuff... But generally I agree.