Comments by "Nicolae Crefelean" (@kneekoo) on "EFF says: Don't stop kids from looking at porn!" video.

@chrisxdeboy I'm not going to list solutions for kids to do whatever they want online, so if you can't imagine how they could browse the web unsupervised, you have a few things to learn.
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@chrisxdeboy Nope, you actually are clueless if you think kids going out to play gives them no chance to access the internet on a device that the parent can't control. We don't live in a world where everyone does good parenting, if that's a good enough of a hint for you.
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Years ago, when Blizzard asked me to give them my ID to recover my account (behind a lost authenticator), I refused to do so. All the large corporations have been hacked, so I didn't want to worry about how they would use/store my ID. This issue, though, is not about parenting - as many people point out in the comments. Unless you're not good enough with technology, you know how even when you're an IT expert you still can't control where your kids access the internet on devices that are not under your management. So no amount of good parenting and technical skill will shield yours kids from adult stuff that is easily available online. That's why we need a way to not make it easy for kids to access this content, while also not making it a matter of privacy for adults. There's no perfect solution here. But one that could work well would be anonymous internet adult cards that you can buy by showing your ID to the cashier. Just like in the case of buying alcohol, they look at it and sell you the stuff if you're of legal age, without storing your identity anywhere. These anonymous cards could be used in any place where proof of adulthood is required. You could get one for being over 18, and later one for being over 21. It's definitely better than giving out your ID to someone who you cannot trust to keep it safe.
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The parents cannot have full control over the internet usage of their kids. That's because the kids can use different ways to access the internet. The issue of freely accessible adult material should not be conflated with the need for good parenting.
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Are you censored if you have to show your ID to buy alcohol? Of course not, it's just that the sellers want to make sure you have the legal age to buy that.
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People can get online in many ways other than at home or with their personal devices. That's why you can't monitor everything your kids do online. So while good parenting is critical to a healthy society, this issue is not about parenting at all.
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@Kazekoge101 How can you stop them if you're not with them constantly?
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@Assenayo You have no clue.
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@chrisxdeboy Kids meet other kids without you knowing about it, because in the real world there's friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends. You can only monitor them if you are with them. And if you are with your kid at all times, you cannot poke and prod someone else's kid just to satisfy your "good parenting". Not many parents would appreciate that. That said, I see you're more interested in blaming parenting exclusively, than to acknowledge the fact that just like in a physical store the seller has to make sure you're an adult before you get age restricted stuff, we need a working solution for the internet too.
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@chrisxdeboy You are deluding yourself if you think you can have complete control over your kids. You can control a lot, but not everything. And by insisting that I'm a bad parent despite lacking any evidence, including being a parent in the first place, you act like a political bully pushing an agenda, if not just a bully. A website can check stuff electronically. We could have anonymous cards to prove adulthood for more than just adult entertainment. We need this because if you keep saying "websites cannot do this", you tacitly allow other kinds of age restricted stuff to be consumed or bought just because they're online. It's one thing to not know how the technology can be used to anonymously allow adults to identify online, and it's another to simply ignore it. Ignoring it is not a solution. Blaming parenthood is also not a solution, because that's like saying "people should be good." Sure, but that's not the world we live in.
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@chrisxdeboy You keep calling me a bad parent despite lack of evidence that I am one in the first place. It's as if pushing an agenda is more important for you than looking at the problem itself, which is the need for websites to do a better job at applying the existing laws for age restricted stuff. In fact, if you ignore the laws about age restricted stuff you can just as well be ok with websites offering other kinds of stuff to kids. Websites can have a one-time check, and even periodical checks for proof of adulthood. The big issue is of course privacy. If we deal with this by making anonymous electronic adult cards, they could be sold physically to adults, checked by an adult at a cash register without storing personal data, just like no one stores anything when you buy alcohol. These anonymous cards could have an ID that goes to a validation server just like an online payment is validated. The cards could also be used even on popular platforms like YouTube, Steam and others as proof of age, or to buy non-dangerous stuff online, like tobacco.
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@chrisxdeboy It looks like you really don't care about fixing the actual issue, and strictly put the problem on anyone else other than those offering age restricted stuff. So maybe fixing this would cause you inconvenience.
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@chrisxdeboy 🤣🤣🤣
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