Originally Posted by jem
More likely a case of more knowledgable people ‘selling’ how to set up a VPN to less knowledgable people.
In an odd way, you sort of have to admire them, there is obviously a demand to access porn and so, as often happens someone will step in to fill this need.
Of course it might have been better for the government to approach this from a perspective of ‘this will happen anyway, stop trying to compensate for bad parenting’ with a faulty technological fix.
I’m sure I have said this before but, I have two daughters, now adults, but when they were younger, 13,14,15 and had phones and tablets, I said to both of them, ‘look with the best will in the world, apply all sorts of parental controls, I know (because I do this for a living), they don’t work, and you are, absolutely are going to stumble over something that you don’t like, not sure this is ‘right’.
And when you do you come to me or you Mum and we will explain it to you. Importantly, no, you will not be punished or sanctioned or questioned about it. In fact quite the reverse, good for you for querying what you see and asking about it.'
Girls don’t like or watch porn? Rubbish, they do, it’s perfectly normal, maybe, not as ‘accepted’ as boys doing it, but they do! Alas a lot of porn is made from a male, fantasy perspective. No this actually isn’t how it works (or at least should work) in real life! And maybe parents of boys should also adopt this attitude, yes you are going to want to watch ’stuff’, it's perfectly understandable; but it is fantasy, it is not, absolutely not you should behave with a partner in real life.
Or maybe it’s just me.
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