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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told
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What child has a VPN ?
A tech savvy child who can Google free vpns.
Can confirm, knew what vpns were when I was 14.
But it's still ridiculous. A willing person will masturbate to nursing home brochures if they are horny enough.
If they really cared about kids they would have been regulating the social media platforms like instagram.
It's indeed ridiculous. At some point I had no internet access, no playboy, no drawing stuff. So, anyway, I just used my good ol' imagination.
They always seek to control that which is natural: the urge to have a happy life, with pleasure.
They could better spend their time combatting the corruption within the Tories and Labour, and actually putting up a proportional representation system. Or yet better, workplace democracy for all. People can follow a leader if they want, but it's nice if everyone else also can live as they want.
If they cared about kids, I think it's better to educate them about how to navigate the internet safely. Prohibiting the internet for kids is one thing, but imo it's a bandaid fix for bad parenting.
Better to tell them "never give away your real name, address, or age", and "never ask for the same of someone else". And that when they see something awful, it's best to talk with their parents about it. Kids need to grow up safely, yes, but they should also be independent, not boxed in by helicopter parents.
When I was younger, I was often on the internet and mostly just visited the safe sites. Occassionally I saw the one off scary site but I knew to avoid it later then, or talked about it irl with friends and family.
Pretty much. We all know this isn't about protecting kids, it's about over policing people and invading their privacy.