Adult Content & Minors

[JamesHunt]

What's your opinion on adult censorship on the internet? Should the Government/ISP's be able to block content deemed inappropriate for minors, or should it be the parents responsibility to monitor their childs activity when using the internet?

[Quiet Reflections]

I feel it should be on the parents, the government has way more important things to take care of.

[youngblood61]

Parents.:)

[1hornySOB]

It should be the Parents' responsibility.

Even though my Parents worked hard to implement parental controls in their household - I was a sneaky horny pre-teen and was able to get around it lol.

Stumbling on to Tranny porn may have been a mistake/blessing but I definitely don't want today's youth to be poisoned by smut. The Government shouldn't be the ones to block content, it should be the guardian of the minor.

[MdR Dave]

My opinion on this runs counter to my beliefs on almost everything else: minors should not consume pornography.

That said, how could they do it? National log-in IDs? Biometric scanning? Just not feasible- and can you imagine if the government knew what porn you surfed? They can't even protect the CIA operative list- your history would be there for anyone to see.

[Willie Escalade]

Parents.

[maxpower]

Parents. If you're incapable of watching over your children, don't have them.

[Jericho]

Parents. If you're incapable of watching over your children, don't have them.

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If you can't watch the little shitters, don't have!

[Deimos]

Parents resposibility... additionaly, they make programs that adults with children can utilize to block certain sites or content via password protection.

[GroobySteven]

There aren't enough options in your poll, so neither.

The internet should be a relatively safe place for a minor to surf and there are parental controls that can be put in place blocking most pornography. The industry needs to take more control here and ensure that their content and the content they use for promoting reaches only adults. Websites or content providers that fail to register or take the proper precautions should be liable for action to be taken against them (whether from the ISP's, the industry, credit card companies, etc.).

A few years ago all our free content was censored on the sites and that was the temperature of the industry. To remain competitive when other companies weren't doing this we had to be more explicit but we still have warning pages (which carry the netnanny and parental guidance software) which many sites don't use. It's in our interest only to get people to the front door of the sites who are eligible to purchase - so that means adults, who own a credit card or payment method who are interested in transgender erotica. Anybody else is wasting our time and bandwidth.

I'd like to see stricter controls but they should come from the industry, not the government. ISP's have the choice of what they want to do as a business and I support that some will be stricter and others less so.

[Prospero]

I doubt if netnanny pages, warnings or those things that require you to promise you "are of age" before entering have any effect whatsoever. The only way the industry could really stop minors seeing the sort of stuff the sites offer to adults is to always charge.
Sadly that would mean sites like this as well.

[GroobySteven]

I doubt if netnanny pages, warnings or those things that require you to promise you "are of age" before entering have any effect whatsoever. The only way the industry could really stop minors seeing the sort of stuff the sites offer to adults is to always charge.
Sadly that would mean sites like this as well.

They work if the parents have installed the software.

[Jericho]

They work if the parents have installed the software.


So, you agree it's down to the parents?

[GroobySteven]

So, you agree it's down to the parents?

Parents have to install the software or limit their access/machines but websites need to ensure they're complying and attempting to block minors also. A lot of this software doesn't work just by itself.

[GrimFusion]

Quote for motherfukintruth!
If you can't watch the little shitters, don't have!

I think it essentially boils down to this argument, although I don't think it's fair.
People's lives change, and all too commonly these days both parents have to work, and some even work multiple jobs. I'd hate to support the idea that most parents don't have the time to watch after their children, but take a hard look at today's youth and tell me otherwise.

Kids are going to be kids. I knew how to sidestep a proxy by the time I was 12 and of course I used it to surf porn. There is no fool-proof way of blocking websites outside of simply not having an internet connection. Kids that want to get around restrictions will probably find a way.

ISPs should never be allowed to block website content they don't host. I don't see how they could be any more effective than parental control software anyhow. For all of the sites that use content rating systems, there are thousands of other adult websites which don't. The only effective way for an ISP to block all adult content is to operate off of a filtered white-list; effectively blocking ALL domains until they're each individually deemed acceptable and added. I certainly don't want my ISP to determine what is worthy of my attention and what isn't.

[trish]

I think the children should decide.

[GrimFusion]

I think the children should decide.

40% of the vote would be "I like turdles".
How would that work to the benefit of anybody?

[sunairco]

I would put the onus of responibility on the parents and leave the choices to their beliefs rather then force censorship on everyone. In the end, it's the parents responsible for their children, not the state, religious figures, or anyone else.