Appalling that folk have to make a choice about whether to make it possible to view pornography or not? Parents certainly stand for it though you can argue whether the default should be the other way round. It's amazing how one's views on the subject of access to pornography can change once one is a parent.
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> It's amazing how one's views on the subject of access to pornography can change once one is a parent.
Sounds like an opt-in filter should satisfy your desires perfectly!
Not all parents have that same view, though. I personally default to the "let the parents make the choice, and the state can butt out of it". I got that from my parents. :)
Yes absolutely. Most on HN are not parents. They will feel differently when their 9 year-old daughter clicks on a redtube link that someone posted somewhere.
"Most on HN are not parents"
Do you have numbers? I was very much surprised reading about family support/progressing in ones job aged 35+ etc. on this very board. Unless old readers drop out/don't return I'd guess that the number of parents here should statistically increase - and I don't think the number's insignificant. Start a poll?
This parent here considers the idea of filtering content utterly wrong, but what really upsets me are your statements along these lines here:
"Whiilst I may be a responsible parent and will turn on filters; many will not."
K, not my native language and all. I'm certainly misparsing the sentence and you don't actually claim that being a reasonable parent and turning the filters on is connected, people NOT turning that thing on aren't reasonable parents? Because that's what I get out of that statement..
Personally, as a parent, I have no problems with this filter for single people living alone or with a partner they are comfortable about discussing porn with. It is exactly in family situations I believe this filter is utterly morally wrong.
I am a parent, and if anything it has made me much more vehemently opposed to filters like this, because I believe strongly that parents are using it as a poor excuse for not teaching their kids to deal with the internet properly, and also as when he is old enough to use the internet without active monitoring, he is also old enough to make a decision on what to view and read and will do so whether or not I try to filter. If I try to filter, though, I have every expectation he will come across much nastier stuff than what he'd otherwise likely seek out by his volition.
More likely they will never know that she clicked it