think children should not operate devices unattended to avoid stuff like this, but that should be parenting, not daddy government)

Same. The colateral damage of policies like this is just too much.

I'm not a parent but I do sympathize with parents in this day. I know they can't supervise kids 24/7. Often the kids are more techy than the parents. Kids can run circles around them. I get that the internet is dangerous for kids. So is big-tech, IMO. Getting kids used to being vassals of big tech, that's harmful in a differnet way. Plus, social media can harm their mental heath and development. It even makes them less empathetic, esp while their personalities are still developing.

I get all that! I want kids to be safe too! IDK what the right answer is. But it can't be this. It can't be total surveilence of every picture everyone takes! It can't be turning control of every device over to Apple and Google, as the final authority. This guy warned us for good reasons.

There is a real prob with kids and tech. But we can't, forgive the exp, throw the baby out with the bath water, and lose ultimate control of our own devices.

I don't know if parents monitoring children's device usage is the right approach either. Kids, LGBT kids for example, should be able to have some privacy.

Parental controls are basically the only option here.

Obviously an AI will need to be monitoring your screen at all times.

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🎯 correct.

Hah yeah, "impossible". I bet it will take 60 seconds after w/e Google and Apple do rolls out, for some kid to bypass it. From which, 60 more seconds for every other kid to learn how, from that kid.

And it won't even solve the big harms that kids experience from tech. It won't solve cyber bullying! It won't solve the disinformation firehose. It won't solve sextortion schemes. It won't solve doxing. It won't solve social media destroying their feeling of self worth. It won't solve swatting. It won't solve ANY of that shit.

My ex exposed our kids to porn and it seriously messed with one of them. More than a year of counselling and they were still never the same. Only took until adulthood that they could really process it. Some kids I would imagine may unalive themselves over it if the level of depression and anxiety my kid went through is anything to go by.

I'm also a child sexual abuse survivor and was also exposed to porn as a kid and had issues because of it. It also took until adulthood for me to work through my sexual trauma and come to a place of mostly peace. But I am not likely to ever be 100% (even with the therapy I've had).

Porn has only gotten more extreme over time with some seriously fucked up shit.

So no, they may not survive and if they do, they don't always come out of it mentally unscathed.

Porn exposure to kids is a form of sexual abuse and should be taken just as seriously.

They're asking for something that will most likely require some server interaction, and can be modified to include more things the government doesn't like (mostly if Farage takes power at some point). It would be insane to think this is all well and good.