There's always people that say it's the parents responsibility to monitor their kids. But as a parent, you either give your kids full access to the internet or nothing. The fault lies with the OS companies Google, Microsoft, Apple. They do a terrible job with parental controls. They make it very hard to setup, they're confusing and hard to use plus they barely work. I think they just do it as a checkbox for marketing or regulatory purposes. That's where I'd like to see regulation.

I don't see how one can come to this conclusion.

You can easily use prosumer routers/firewalls and other parental devices to block content you don't want. Millions of solutions exists and its trivial.

If you don't have the options in your router or OS level settings, you can 100% change the DNS server to Cloudflare's Family DNS, or a number of other family DNS solutions, many of which are offered for free.

You don't have to give your kid everything or nothing. You just have refused to look at the options. This is HN, we should be making tech for our families, investigating solutions!

OS makers should not be in the business of enforcing censorship. If you want to shield your children from the "horrors" of the internet either use proper parental control software, or don't allow access at all like you said until your kids are mature to understand what's going on

The onus is on the parent to the be parent. Not the tech industry, and especially not the government.

Ironically, the UK already has ISP level implementations to filter adult/illegal content that seem to work in most cases as intended. The lobby for this legislation came from groups concerned about matters more prevalent on large social media platforms who will barely be touched by the new regulations.

Why is giving kids access to the whole internet a problem?

I'm a millennial, I had access to porn as a kid, that's 25 years ago.

What's the deal with it?

The biggest issues are social media related, not by seeing how people exchange body fluids.

The answer is a computer the child must sit down and use in front of the family. Steve Jobs ruined the world with the invention of the iPhone, and whoever else is responsible for the more generic smartphone. Now parents use one to quieten their children and governments use it to surveil us all.