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Pornwolf: We didn't make it to easy for kids to see porn, adults made it to easy by once again buying another electronic babysitter, and sticking it in the kid's room, and giving them unfiltered net access. It isn't any more intelligent than dropping your kid in the middle of an adult bookstore, and then bitching about the covers of the magazines.
Mailman: .kids is simple - created by law, say "US" to be nice. Anyone who wants is has to meet the standards. Not a registry where an moron with a $20 bill can buy a domain, but something that is carefully maintained, monitored, and the companies reviewed before they are allowed to be part of the registry. The guidelines can be clearly spelled out.
Heck, if it works, add a .teens one as well, and aim the stuff a little "higher".
Anyone wants to stay on .com or whatever would be fine, but if the browsers are set for .kids only, well, there ya go.
Yes, kids would probably find a way to work around it, but then they would be the ones working hard to get there, not me working hard to give them something.
The world is intended for adults. We have bars, we have nightclubs, we have strip clubs, we have cars that you can't drive until a certain age. You cannot vote, you cannot die for your country, and technically, you aren't even suppose to smoke, drink or fuck until you are an adult.
We create in the real work playgrounds for children, places that they can go and play safely with other children. We don't send them downtown at midnight by themselves to wander around. Yet many parents don't have a problem with the 13 and 14 year olds being up late on the weekend "chatting on the internet" with who known who. Fucking mental.
It is a great American tradition to blame the outside sources for problems, but realistically children are their parent's responsbility until they are of age, and parents need to take that responsibility a little more seriously, The internet isn't the safest place, and any attempt to try to tame the whole thing down will backfire, and the issues will move offshore and out of the jurisdiction, except that the net knows no boundries, so it will still be there.
Look at KP. It sucks, it is against the law, and you can find it be searching google. If they can't stop the blatantly illegal stuff, what they fuck you think they are going to do against legal porn?
Alex
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