This is a failure of Operating System Vendors, in my opinion.

If Operating Systems had a way for parents to adequately monitor/administer the machines of their children, this would not be such a huge, massive hole, in which to pour (yet more) human rights abuses.

Parents have the right to have an eye on their children. This is not repressive, it is not authoritarian, it is a right and a responsibility.

The fact that I can't - easily, and with little fuss - quickly see what my kids are viewing on their screens, is the issue.

Sure, children have the right to privacy - but it is their parents who should provide it to them. Not just the state, but the parents. And certainly, the state should not be eliminating the rest of society's privacy in the rush to prevent parents from having oversight of - and responsibility for - the online activities of their children.

The fact is, Operating System Vendors would rather turn their platforms into ad-vending machines, than actually improve the means by which the computers are operated by their users.

It would be a simple thing to establish parent/child relationship security between not just two computers, but two human beings who love and trust each other.

Kids will always be inquisitive. They will always try to exceed the limits imposed upon them by their parents. But this should not be a reason for more draconian control over consenting adults, or indeed individual adults. It should be a motivating factor to build better computing platforms, which can be reliably configured to prevent porn from having the detrimental impact many controllers of society have decided is occurring.

Another undeniable fact, is that parents - and parenting - get a bad rap. However, if a parent and child love and trust each other, having the ability to quickly observe the kids computing environment in productive ways, should be being provided, technologically.

When really, we should be building tools which strengthen parent/child relationships, we are instead eradicating the need for parents.

Unpopular opinion, I know: but Thats The Point.

Mobile operating systems have very great children controls. You should research the topic yourself and you will see.