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Why hasn't the ISP "market" provided a solution for concerned parents?

I agree. It’s as easy as that if you respect people having different values. But these laws come from a “my god told me that this is right” mindset and you can’t really argue with that. if this is what people want, so be it. who cares!

"easy"? ISP can only apply the rules per-connection, so it's not great for parental control. It also can't enforce any filtering past the domain, so sex subreddits are still open. It also creates a list of people enabling sex sites. It would still be a problematic solution.

you can just make a law that websites are required to flag the html for pages that contain rated content so that isp and parents can filter whatever they want. all without infringung on people freedom.

i am sure smarter people than me can come up with an even better solution. this honestly just feel more like imposing religious values than anything else

same rules that apply to pornography should apply to any religious site too. no one under 18 should be subjected to lunacy of religious websites that exist and yet… :)

You ever notice how the parents who are loudest about "parental rights" are the ones who coerce and groom their children into religion before they're old enough to consent or even understand the metaphysical underpinnings of religious belief?

yup, exactly!

ISP should never be and to see the HTML. If they can, that's already a huge privacy issues.

If you want to use the content and filter client-side, that's nothing to do with ISPs and there's lots of apps that already do it.

How are the parents going to watch porn then? If you think porn consumption isn't ubiquitous among all the anti-porn preachers I've got some statistics to sell to you

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