UK’s Starmer gives Apple, Google 3 months to stop children sending nude images

Idiot's in Ties are still Idiots.

Strictly by the description it should include websites too, and would have to be extremely low level to prevent viewing.

Also Nintendo should probably be concerned at how widely the law is written for the DS

If one party decides to make the country an open air prison, all it does is secure political victory towards their opposition party that intend to reverse those changes. The flag might change, but the methods stay the same.

It's a different approach based on age, too - the parental controls Apple provides are great for a toddler on an iPad, and may even work into elementary school... but not forever. You can't hide kids from reality, no matter what you take away. I knew too much and more by age 8 and we didn't even _have_ the internet. When our son gets to be 6 or 7 we'll probably have to start explaining the concept of porn and online bad actors, and that's depressing, but it's the world we live in.

My partner sent me some dirties and the new iphone asked her if she was sure.

Creepy shit.

On iOS parental controls let you choose to manage the child’s contacts. So they can only communicate with anyone you put in there. You can also block communication in apps. You can also block unapproved websites or let Apple block the ones in its list. You can set age restrictions on everything. You can be pretty heavy-handed if you want to. You can also buy the kid a dumb phone.

He may as well be saying that he needs to put cameras in every car to verify that kids are wearing seatbelts if they’re in the car. That would likely reduce more harm than this, but it’s also more obvious what the problem is.

You can literally do most parental controls with your home network if you know what you are doing which means those that don't will have to learn, I know how terrible a parent has to learn something to take care of their child. You can even enforce it outside the house by setting up a tunnel to your home network on a phone and making it so the phone has to use the tunnel in order to connect to the internet otherwise there is no internet access, so your network parental controls are always enforced. Hell you could make it so the phone only gets internet access when home too, to enforce even more limitations on internet access.

Yes this will require constant updating as things change and you discover workarounds and new apps are developed, but as a parent aren't you supposed to be constantly learning and adapting for your child anyways? You may even need to buy some gadgets too which again is nothing new for a parent to do to protect their child.

This shit can already be done but lazy parents and shitty governments are going to make it everyone's problem.

How?

That seems like a parent problem.

Maybe hold the parents accountable. Betya then they'll start caring about what their children are doing. Because yes, while there are adult perpetrators, there are also children themselves selling media they create on things like roblox servers. It's a rabbit hole.

Bonus: you don't have to invalidate everyone's right to fucking privacy.

Extra credit: you can still tax the fuck out of these trillion dollar corporations that are ruining the world.

Starmer's labour government has been an absolute shit show. Fuck the child safety act.

The fact that you think this shows that you've never even attempted to set up parental control...

And sure, let's have parents who work 10-12 hours just so the family survives, do YET ANOTHER chore, which they need to constantly manage.

How about instead of that, big tech can get their shit together and provide proper parental controls? Including router manufacturers. It's minimal effort from them, makes life easier for millions of parents.

That's not what it does

Its really not that hard to do you could literally find a youtuber to walk you through the whole process since it seems you could use some hand holding with tech.

But hey if you didn't want so many chores to do after working long hours maybe consider that before having a child. Not my fault parents didn't think it would be a lot of work.

I mean yeah that would be great if big tech could provide us with more protections and stop tracking everything we do but they aren't going to and governments take their bribes so they won't force them to. So parents are going to need to figure out how to protect their children and adapt to our online world. You can learn these skills and protect your children or not its up to you.

We must protect the sausages with the Sausage Safety Act!

Just allow parents to disable their child’s camera, simple?