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I distinctly remember being able to find "adult content" at the age of 12. If I was 12 today I don't think Apple's iOS moderation would stop me either.

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Aye but it helps Apple's stock ticker to block it

It's never about the actual thing haha. Americans (averaged and skewed by power) are really weird about sex

> It's never about the actual thing haha.

As a parent, it's 100% about the actual thing. Whatever the additional motivations are for Faceless Multinational Corporations to be thoughtful about it, I'm glad they are.

Before the cries of "censorship", this is about kids not stumbling about NSFW/NSFL content before they're equipped (by parents, educators, etc.) to deal with it. When they want to find it, they will be able to.

> this is about kids

But it's not just kids who use Discord (and other platforms). If you're concerned about kids accidentally discovering adult content, by all means add a parental control setting somewhere that hides any NSFW content. Then everyone else who is of legal age and equipped to deal with such content can, if they wish to do so.

> If you're concerned about kids accidentally discovering adult content, by all means add a parental control setting somewhere that hides any NSFW content.

For sure! And thank you for the response — I just realized I must've skimmed over this very important detail (emphasis mine): "Additionally, all users on the iOS platform (including those aged 18+) will be blocked from joining AND ACCESSING NSFW servers."

Okay, that's stupid.

I think this was brought up somewhere in a sibling thread. It would be great to have a more granular content restrictions framework that allowed for exactly this. But how to do this in a reliable, verifiable way sounds like a real challenge.

i've heard some weird stories from people just a little older than me who didn't have access to internet at the age of puberty.

Life of a teenager is much better with internet, including ability to access porn anytime, our predecessors were sharing erotic journals and other images with each other, just because they didn't know any better.

kids who have no interest in content like that shouldn't have unrestricted access to computers anyway, and if your child is old enough to manage his time playing games, he is old enough to figure out sex on his own the same way his parents did

I’m not sure what you’re suggesting, but FWIW my children are several years from being teenagers.

i'm simply talking about modern policies of guarding teenagers from porn, and how ridiculous they are

Ah, thanks for clarifying.

I think we'll probably have to agree to disagree that it's universally ridiculous to guard children from any kind of porn. As a parent, I'm trying to help the children I'm responsible for to develop informed, healthy attitudes about sex. Unfettered access to the deep end of the internet porn pool won't help me help them do that.

Have you considered not letting your children use the internet?

It's not about stop. It's about showing that you tried. Do you think those "click yes if you're 18" are there to stop you? Nope, it's about protecting your ass in case some concerned patent starts complaining.

Sort of like official "I swear she was 18, officer".

more like "i swear she said she was 18"

It's more about liability than deterrence.

It looks better for parents, who probably will be monitoring.

Parents are generally both more worried than they should be and less equipped to act on their concerns than they need to be. In other words, it’s an annoying waste of time.

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