"The parents should know better" They don't. They are too old. They both work jobs. They can't control their friends kids. They can't control what they see on school computers. They don't know how to set up parental controls. They are uninformed, and don't know the dangers of the internet. There's only one parent. There's zero parents. The parent is just flat out negligent.
It's called parenting. I'm supposed to be sympathetic because the parents can't be bothered to inform themselves, to learn how the parental controls work, to keep track of who their children are spending time with, what their school is teaching them, or because they just plain can't be bothered to put in the effort?
They did everything they could, but the kid had some workaround or found something that slipped the censors. They left for a minute because the kid was watching a music video, or a roblox game and there is no way they could find something terrible on a platform meant for kids/general audiences.
I don't understand how you think more government regulation is going to solve this problem. There will always be loopholes, there will always be exploits and people will always find them. If the government imposed a system like you're suggesting, people would now have an added incentive to find them
It's a driver's liscence. The same one you show the cashier when you go to a bar, buy liquer at the grocery store or online, and when you have to fill out paperwork.
There's a big fucking difference between me having to show ID to buy a beer at a pub or a supermarket, or needing to show my passport to apply for planning permission, than there is with the government having a potentially hackable stored database of all my sexual habits and preferences
I am fucking tired of seeing figures like birdie and bluefolf and a hundred other figures documented on this site that were given access to porn and porn communities when they should not. I don't want to see millions of kids being funneled into this because military age adults can't handle ruining "the experience of the internet." because not one aspect of society can be tainted by shared responsibility.
You haven't really explained why I should be content with having fewer rights or restrictions on my rights just because a few people abuse their rights or end up fucked up. People are going to end up fucked up no matter what you do. The best we can hope for, as a society, is to try to manage these people to the best of our ability, and try to prevent them from harming others.
Also, nobody's really giving any consideration to kind of society you will create if you restrict their access to pornography. Look at ultra conservative, sexually repressed societies like most Muslim majority countries. They rape little boys, because the women are so covered up but, by their logic, little boys are cute but they're not covered up so it's okay to rape them. They rape women, if they don't wear hijab or other face covering, because if a woman doesn't cover her hair, she's asking for it. They're immensely violent and a lot of honest-to-God terrorists are so sexually repressed without even the possibility of having sex with an actual woman that they commit terrorist acts because Islamic doctrine says they'll get their 72 virgins in Heaven.
Muslim mass migration is already a big problem in first world countries. If you prevent their porn access, if you prevent them from having a wank and chilling the fuck out, you will make a bad problem exponentially worse
