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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told
(www.bbc.com)
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It's so weird. Just don't give your kids unrestricted internet access if you're concerned about any of this...
What's wild is that I have to assume most of us don't. My friends have said outright their kids won't get smart phones until a certain age and are consciously deciding media access levels for different ages.
We all grew up with open internet and most of us know that it was a bad thing. We don't need laws to govern access.
It's just an excuse to build more surveillance and censorship systems. Mostly, because we all learned various empowering things from the internet growing up that was outside of their state funded systems.
This is not an endorsement of homeschooling. Merely a statement that, even with the bad of the internet, we also learn many things that annoyed politicians and elites alike.
The 2010s were full of protests and organizing made possible by open access to information. That's the real problem.
Just give them a flip-phone and a living-room computer.
Or, y'know... they could do some actual parenting and talk to their kids about this. Kids aren't morons, they're just inexperienced. They are actually capable of understanding, like, words and stuff as long as one offers enough context for them... Actually teach the kids to use the internet, help them develop some insights.
And if anyone's panicked about the immoral stuff going on in the porn industry (and there are plenty of things to be addressed and critiqued about a hystorically predatory domain), then address those directly! Friggin' nurture their critical thinking and empathy! Locking them up in the fucking basement isn't gonna Protect Them From Evil™, it just ensures they'll be maladapted and sociopathic once they manage to escape from fucking prison! (no pun intended)
Edit: I will say this forever and ever - it is the parents' duty to adapt to the world in which their kids have to live, not to force their kids to adapt to a world their parents wish would apply!
You're 100% correct, but I would also like to point out how weird it is that porn seems to be the ONLY industry where these religious nutjobs pretend to care about workers.
In the US, the same people who say they care about the porn industry preying upon women are the same ones rolling back child labor legislations to send 14 year olds to meat packing plants. The same ones who have kept the minimum wage where it is for decades. The same ones who want to ban abortion even in cases where the woman's life is threatened. I know this is a BBC article about the UK, but I can't help but see some parallels with the right-wing religious conservatives everywhere in the world.
They don't care about women. They don't care about children. They don't care about workers. They care about having lots of cheap labor. They care about parents being too tired, too overworked, too risk-averse for the sake of their children to dare to fight back. They want a world where peasant girls get married at 14 and start cranking out more babies immediately. Any substitute which threatens that (birth control, abortion, homosexuality, pornography, sex education) is under attack.
Nah, they dug in with it in the healthcare field, when "fighting for nurses" who were idiots and thought vaccines killed people.
In the US children get shot and killed at school on a monthly basis and all the government can think to do is age-gate porn and ban books
Yep, it's always about profit and control with these assholes, never about what's right or wrong. And even the religious pretext is just utter bullshit from where they're standing, using it to make the pill easier to swallow for the brainwashed masses, nothing more...
These people don't give a fuck about any sort of god or code, they just want more money and more power. That's all there is to it.