I would support a simple toggle, a content safe mode and an unrestricted mode, selectable at the OS level through a parental controls option. Then have sites flag all “objectionable” or not safe for work material. The restricted mode would not even download such content.
Done, more power to parents, and smart kids, while not destroying the internet to block content that conservatives don’t like. Which is what all of these laws are based on.
You can kinda already do that with parental controls on kids’ devices and many routers, as well as services provided by ISP’s.
In Canada there’s also a free national DNS provider that has a tier the filters out known malicious and/or adult sites at the DNS level depending on which hosts you point at.
I would support a simple toggle, a content safe mode and an unrestricted mode, selectable at the OS level through a parental controls option. Then have sites flag all “objectionable” or not safe for work material. The restricted mode would not even download such content.
Done, more power to parents, and smart kids, while not destroying the internet to block content that conservatives don’t like. Which is what all of these laws are based on.
You can kinda already do that with parental controls on kids’ devices and many routers, as well as services provided by ISP’s. In Canada there’s also a free national DNS provider that has a tier the filters out known malicious and/or adult sites at the DNS level depending on which hosts you point at.