As I teenager I can say I have never had my internet censored. As a matter of fact it has never been controlled in any way whatsoever. My mum would never even mention anything at all about the so called "dangers of the Internet" or any inappropriate content. Of course I visited few sites I "shouldn't" have. But no tragedy happened.

Fast forward a few years and now it looks like I am one of the few men that doesn't visit adult websites or perform the act of self-sex at all. Sometimes I actually wonder if my mum thinks I'm doing that stuff.

Coincidence? For the most part definitely. But I don't see how such censorship can work at all. Unless of course you're home-schooling your child.

And the worst approach would be to monitor what they do. If I knew my parents were monitoring what I put in google I know there's a lot of things I wouldn't search for even if there's nothing inappropriate about them, it simply might be simply embarrassing. Whenever someone comes to my room I minimize my browser, there's no secret in there, I just don't want people to see what I'm doing. I love my privacy.

Given how lives of many people nowadays are spent in a large part on the Internet controlling your child's Internet is very close to controlling their lives.