There are also fascists screaming at the government to do other wildly illegal stuff. The lousy parents begging the government to "tread on me" would get wildly better results by spending less time trying to create an authoritarian state and more time with their kids they claim to care so much about.

They're children. They have the internet access you give them. This isn't some unsolveable problem that needs government intervention, my parents were setting up filters so long ago that they're grandparents now.

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TryingToBeNice 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> my parents were setting up filters

Ah, OK, so you admit a problem exists. That's step one...

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OkayPhysicist 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And the solution already exists, one that doesn't empower the government to do some truly heinous shit.

Every power you grant the government is another knife they'll eventually stab you in the back with. Maybe you like your current government, but what about the next one, and the one after that?

Instead, just use the tools you already have access to. I was not opposed when California mandated that applications add parental controls, that's fine. If parents want to restrict their children's internet access, there's a continium there ranging from "prudent parenting" to "child abuse", but that can be worked out on a case-by-case basis. I am, however, rabidly against the state requiring you to dox yourself every time you log into a website, because inconceivably lazy parents can't figure out how to use the parental tools that they already have.

	▲	Muromec an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Parenting controls are shit on the end device side. It's not working, it's not even trying to. Nobody would need this blanket approach if parenting controls actually worked.

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sunaookami an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

One hour old account advocating for digital identity? And a few other posts here from other accounts doing the same? Is this a psyop?