I actually don't hate this??? As long as parents can set up their own whitelists and it's not up to the government to have the final say on any particular block.

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akersten 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Parents can do this today if they wanted to

The problem of "kids accessing the Internet" is a purposeful distraction from the intent of these laws, which is population-level surveillance and Verified Ad Impressions.

	▲	armchairhacker 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Today, in practice it's not a choice, because even the most attentive parents fail to block internet access. Parental controls are ineffective, and all the kid's friends have access so they become alienated. https://beasthacker.com/til/parental-controls-arent-for-pare... But laws alone won't fix this, and laws aren't necessary (except maybe a law that prevents kids from buying phones). In the article, the child's devices had parental controls, but they were ineffective. There's demand for a phone with better parental controls, so it will come, and more parents are denying access, so their kids will become less alienated.