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Commentators criticising the act and ofcom’s attempt, do understand the online safety act is to prevent children from watching porn? The critique always lacks any form of grounding in reality or proposal of alternative solutions


There is already a method for that, it is called parenting. Technology never could, cannot, and never will solve problems that are human in nature


Children freely watching porn is a technology problem not a not a nature problem


^ this is my point. You remove any grounding. We don’t allow children to drink (we allow them younger in the UK than the US), drive, and many other things we have safeguards for. Also, how do you suggest parenting solves for this? Are children with parents all the time? Does the data suggest an only parenting technique works? No, course not. What’s your solution to something that is a problem? All up for a critique of the act but to say “there is no problem” is absurd.


With this logic we could ban selling knives, because you can use them to kill somebody.


In the UK you need to be over 18 to buy knives


Complete ban should be enforced, even if it saves a one child, it is worth it.


Or ban guns




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