No argument on the torrents and file sharing sites, although that's *way* outside the arena of protecting children given the number of highly deliberate steps required to obtain it.
To the other point - really? I'll grant that some videos on xhamster, whatevertube etc are illegally uploaded by users, however the number of sites that host short clips/photos that link through to porn sites that do then have a paywall is non trivial. It may be that these are the less responsible sites, but frankly I don't think I trust the porn industry enough to believe them, or that all clips on xhamster etc are genuinely from independent users.
The answer is to create a voluntary software or service that either blacklists porn, or more probably, whitelist sites that are acceptable for children to see. This would be far more effective than any regulation you care to mention or pursuing copyrights.
The problem is with people, not technology. Children would whinge because their favoured sites weren't on whitelists, parents because this required actual effort to add sites to the whitelist and then there will be bones of contention.
No argument about blocking porn, but filters often also block biology and sex education. Some of this is crap filtering, but it's often also poor or religion led parenting.
This is all known because it is already a solved problem. The services exist, the software exists, it's just that people don't want to pay for it, take any responsibility or have any inconvenience - so they try to ruin everyone else's day. Well, they can FRO.
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Date: 2015-04-10 03:13 pm (UTC)To the other point - really? I'll grant that some videos on xhamster, whatevertube etc are illegally uploaded by users, however the number of sites that host short clips/photos that link through to porn sites that do then have a paywall is non trivial. It may be that these are the less responsible sites, but frankly I don't think I trust the porn industry enough to believe them, or that all clips on xhamster etc are genuinely from independent users.
The answer is to create a voluntary software or service that either blacklists porn, or more probably, whitelist sites that are acceptable for children to see. This would be far more effective than any regulation you care to mention or pursuing copyrights.
The problem is with people, not technology. Children would whinge because their favoured sites weren't on whitelists, parents because this required actual effort to add sites to the whitelist and then there will be bones of contention.
No argument about blocking porn, but filters often also block biology and sex education. Some of this is crap filtering, but it's often also poor or religion led parenting.
This is all known because it is already a solved problem. The services exist, the software exists, it's just that people don't want to pay for it, take any responsibility or have any inconvenience - so they try to ruin everyone else's day. Well, they can FRO.