[idi banashapan]

The very existence of the Online Safety Bill is a response to something many shy away from saying plainly... too many parents are failing to protect their children online. Internet providers already offer free safety filtering, and both desktop and mobile operating systems include built in parental controls and screen time management tools.

So why the need for legislation? It's not a stretch to suggest that many parents either aren’t bothering to configure these protections, or worse, are deliberately disabling them Perhaps for convenience or out of misplaced trust. The bill steps in where personal responsibility has too often been left at the login screen. And once these new steps are seen to be so easily circumvented with things like the aforesaid free VNPs for example, no doubt the response will be to increase the measures and reductions of personal freedoms even further.

The problem isn't so much children accessing porn, it's the parents not preventing them in the first place. Probably the same who complain about the 'nanny state'.