Ready or not, censorship is rolling out across the internet
There, FTFY.
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
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We have proxies, we have DNS filters, we have pre configured software packages you can install with a few clicks. Net filtering is not all that difficult.
We also have a planet full of people throwing up their hands and passing off responsibility for guiding and watching their kids to 'someone else'.
It takes effort people, and discussions that can be difficult, and you might need to learn a tech trick or two, but it's not impossible. Stop screwing everyone over because you want big brother to take care of the hard work for you.
I don't think they care at all about young people using the internet, I think they care more about policing the internet, this is just a foot hold.
While some parents will advocate for this bullshit (and to them i'd answer the same as you: how about you raise your kids?), when it comes from politicians the goal is control and censorship, for which Think of the children!™ is the usual excuse.
Indeed, politicians do love to claim power and control wherever they can and kids are a handy excuse often enough.
As to the parents, at least in the USA my take is that so many are overwhelmed with how to handle it that if you get someone in power saying "we will make the internet safe for you, no effort needed" they jump all over it.
I'm in my 40's and none of the things out there on the web that kids are doing even existed when I was their age, so there are plenty of people who are really the first generation to be sorting out how to deal with this stuff for our kids. Given my work I'm better equiped than most, but it's still possible to get caught off guard
The public and mass scale internet. Nobody would ask a small website from 3rd world country to implement those western abominations.
You'll be surprised at how quickly AI enabled site blocking will be implemented. Yes, even Bob's cast iron cooking forum or antique shaving razors. It'll be just one more way to collect data on people.
You underestimate the power of technology over stupid laws. The information will be exchanged but in different place outside of regulated system.