Which parental controls, and how would those even work?
Back in the IE6 days I remember there was some setting to tweak allowed content ratings for websites, which I believe was based on HTTP headers, but does anyone implement that anymore (did they ever)? I just checked reddit, and they don't seem to send any headers, and use the same domains for porn as they do for child-focused content.
The obvious thing to advocate for would be to require commercial porn sites to send some kind of standardized headers that would allow parental controls to work in the first place, and/or to require any domains with content targeted to children to not also host adult-only content (e.g. reddit should put either their child-focused subs or their porn on a separate subdomain).
Then require commercial browser vendors to implement content blocking settings based on those headers.
Alternatively, it would be possible for governments to provide an oauth style service that provides tokens that assert the user is an adult without revealing any other info about the user, and then require porn sites to check for that token.
Back in the IE6 days I remember there was some setting to tweak allowed content ratings for websites, which I believe was based on HTTP headers, but does anyone implement that anymore (did they ever)? I just checked reddit, and they don't seem to send any headers, and use the same domains for porn as they do for child-focused content.
The obvious thing to advocate for would be to require commercial porn sites to send some kind of standardized headers that would allow parental controls to work in the first place, and/or to require any domains with content targeted to children to not also host adult-only content (e.g. reddit should put either their child-focused subs or their porn on a separate subdomain).
Then require commercial browser vendors to implement content blocking settings based on those headers.
Alternatively, it would be possible for governments to provide an oauth style service that provides tokens that assert the user is an adult without revealing any other info about the user, and then require porn sites to check for that token.