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 3 months 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 3 months ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Maybe they’re not really trying to protect children.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Good luck explaining this to congress
Etterra@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Some of those fossils predate combination locks. Good luck educating them on anything built after the 14th century.
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
If they truly understand, we won’t have this shit now.
Plopp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What do you mean lock it behind a passcode? How?
ADTJ@feddit.uk 3 months ago
The router settings, require a password to change whether it’s in family safe mode or not
Esp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
Fuck America.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
American here. I approve.
Jackthelad@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But only after you’ve provided your ID.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 months 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 3 months ago
They’re already trying to label trans people simply existing as porn
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 months ago
History is quite unoriginal.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 3 months ago
After war on drugs failed you got to spend all that anger on something and find a new enemy.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
The war on drugs didn’t fail. It’s an ongoing failure.
ahornsirup@feddit.org 3 months 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 3 months ago
War on healthcare ain’t getting them off anymore, but war on food security has a promising future
kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Maybe there will be less and less reasons to use internet at all.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 3 months ago
An optimist, huh?
DancingBear@midwest.social 3 months ago
Who needs porn with articles like this
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 months 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 3 months ago
Can’t wait to start looking for flash drives in roadside hedges 😂
azimir@lemmy.ml 3 months 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 3 months ago
I mean there is a difference between the good old magazines and having access to super hardcore stuff... But generally I agree.