Comment by SeanDav
8 hours ago
This has got very little to do with children - that is just the excuse that sounds good. "Think of the children" is a rhetorical tactic that anyone who wants to get unfettered access to your data rolls out whenever they can. It is a tactic that unreasonable people use to influence reasonable people, because it is so difficult for a reasonable person to argue against without coming across as uncaring and/or bigoted.
If it was an excuse to get your data there would be some data-getting involved. It may be hard for you to believe, but lots of people really do want parental controls that actually work and are bound by the force of law.
Yes that may be true, but parents are being misguided by efforts that are trying to control aspects of data.
If you, as a parent, make yourself open to this attack, you will find that you are making us less free of a society by expecting others to parent for you.