I really dont understand why parents don't bare the responsibility of their kids internet access as opposed to the expectation the internet raises their kids...
the solution to children stabbing each other was to attempt to ban knives
i believe they are also gearing up for a ban on cigars, cigarettes have a scale which will make them effectively illegal for children born today, more types of pornography are being banned
...this is the same country which has legalised heroin use regionally btw...you need a licence to watch porn but your neighbour can shoplift, shoot up heroin, and you pay his rent...
however bad you think it is, it is much worse
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What on earth are you talking about?
the question of whether the state should try to fix this stuff is irrelevant, it cannot
Many kids from these backgrounds are seen as little more than cashcows to help their parents get homes and income without having to work.
If you turn having children into a profit-seeking enterprise, you will get bad outcomes. The UK is in the bizarre position where people who should have kids aren't having kids but they are paying for the children of those who shouldn't have kids.
The statistics coming out about this are incredible. We are looking at 20-30% of this cohort likely being unable to work at any point in their lifetime.
Platforms are also responsible for not allowing their services to be used to abuse children, which is also true offline.
As a wise man once said:
> The British legal system is and always has been a litany of injustices dressed up in formal attire. To be avoided at all costs.
I can assure you that this is such a scenario, as a restaurant in the UK is absolutely responsible for providing safe toilets for their customers, especially if a risk has been brought to their attention.
I also don’t think this act is the way to address these issues, but I don’t think it’s as easy as just putting everything at the feet of the parents as I imagine it almost impossible to police at home, not to mention at school.
When I think of older technologies like television, we have rules and regulations about what can be shown when.
Again, this isn’t to say this approach is right, but wanting to regulate isn’t an attack on free speech. It seems there is regularly a tension on HN between free speech absolutists, usually from the US and those more happy to accept regulation, usually from the EU
I don't, because I don't need to.
I had unrestricted access to internet when I was my kids age and I turned out just fine, just like the extreme majority of my generation.
I know that serious discussions about important topics are enough to make sure that even if my kids do access content that's not meant for children, they're not negatively affected by them, just like I wasn't.
Again I don’t have kids, so I’m not in a position to judge, but I can only imagine the pressures on children are completely different nowadays. For example, we didn’t have computers in our pocket 24/7 with all of our peers on the other end influencing us indifferent ways.
Just as an aside, the UK has been doing this for decades. One of the most permanent causes of legislative failure in the UK has been making laws based on media pressure that have potentially huge costs in the future. And as these costs emerge, guess what the only solution is? More interventions.
I would suggest that a country which cannot control crime, cannot control borders, has a collapsing economy, cannot house people, etc. has bigger problems than trying to arrest people for saying things on Twitter or shut down end-to-end encryption.
Hmm no it's really not. By the time I was a teenager, porn was easily accessible on the web, social media were in their peak use, etc.