Op 10/03/2026 om 18:36 schreef John Hasler:
Bigsy Bohr wrote:I don't entirely disagree. I think, in France, they once said that over 25% of all 12-year-olds had seen hard porn on the Internet. I think that's a problem.Why? In particular, why is it a problem that should be addressed by government?
Because the government is there to protect their civilians (at least here in Europe this is). The big tech companies (Meta, X, Google etc) are not interested. If they did it by themselves then they would even make more money because they have all the personal data that we now 'hide' from them.
There also was somebody that said that in the old days there was a physical check to filter out the 12-year-old. But the ones that were 'big for their age' still passed. Today a 12-year-old boy from Perth is able to pass through the 'gate' in LA with a fake ID or as his grandmother. Who will check.
Can it be solved by laws or government? Unfortunately not, unless we register all kind of biometrics. Who keeps them? A company? The big tech? The government? In the end we citizens are even more controlled by the government than today. Companies in some countries, like China and US, are obliged by law to provide all information that they can to their government. It is not that you nothing wrong that this is still the same in the (near) future.
It can only be stopped by us, civilians. Stay alert and do not do things that are too good to be true. Try to educate (young) people like we were educated to stay away from certain places.
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