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I fear this will be a stalking horse for full digital identity, and eventually squashing all anonymous speech. The best solution here would be to force all adult sites to require a minimum monthly payment from a credit card. Blocks underage users and helps tackle addiction.
same things happen when kids want a few more bucks or access to parents drugs/alcohol .. they are going to take it anyways
Edit: come to think of it, wont the `Any commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet` be applicable to google, FB, titok,ect since their services are known to be addictive and such? All these research/articles on social media stating how it negatively affects mental states. gov-id for it all?
As someone who started watching porn when he was 10 and wishes he hadn't, this seems like great news to me. Hopefully sites like reddit follow suit
Why do you regret it, specifically? Did you notice any negative effects on your life? (Not trolling. I also started watching porn at a young age and I wonder if it had any negative effect on my development.)
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It would actually be great, I know freedom and whatnot but raising someone through the puberty ages is really tricky right now. The social media stuff is almost worse than the porn, because banning your kid from it is blocking them from the main way their peers communicate. So you are left with the choice of letting their undeveloped brains get barraged by social media, or making them the odd one out at school.
The answer to you having a difficult time parenting is for everyone to use a government issued id for any content you want to ban your kid from using? Why not install filtering in your home router and kids cellphones?
The average parent is incompetent when it comes to technology. They wouldn't know what to use and would likely install some sort of malware.
Perhaps Microsoft and Apple could implement something in their systems or the ISPs. If it is up to the parents to find the appropriate solution it just won't work.
I think it's really important to protect children from this type of content. I'm not necessarily against these kinds of blocks but I don't think they'll be effective because there will always be extremely easy ways to bypass them (use a VPN, find a website that isn't beholden to US laws, etc etc etc). IMO the best approach is to ensure parents are technically competent and knowledgeable enough to be able to configure…
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Is it unconstitutional to require an id to get a gun?
No. But it's unconstitutional to require an id to get a book.
Secondly, you are going to have to explain the difference between a book and a gun constitutionally. If requiring an ID is disenfranchisement of a right when it comes to books then it is for guns as well.
33% - typical boneheaded move from the usual suspects - how is this measured and who decides this ???. Let me guess Texas and Florida will jump on this as well - will be interesting to see if this goes to the Supreme Court - afaik porn is protected as freedom of expression in the US is it not ???.
However, just because something is protected does not mean you cannot require an ID. If that was the case then it would be unconstitutional to require an ID before buying a gun.
As someone who started watching porn when he was 10 and wishes he hadn't, this seems like great news to me. Hopefully sites like reddit follow suit
my parents set up my computer in the kitchen, where I couldn't hide the screen. that wouldn't work with mobile devices, but in the pre-smartphone world it was pretty effective.
I still watched porn as a 15-yo, but I had to be careful not to get caught, and I don't regret it.