Can you elaborate on tech censorship being bad for children? I'd be comfortable with restricting access to certain sites on my home network if I had kids.
Censorship, especially driven by large institutions effectively disarms people's cognitive abilities over time. Your ability to learn to think requires you to be exposed to a large range of possible ideas, some novel, others outright silly.
The problem is that ultimately "harmful content" is much narrower than social engineers would like to admit. A great deal of legitimately harmful content is evidence of or glorification of crime that itself is very often already criminal.
Dragnet surveillance and top-down censorship do little to address these crimes, and the costs are very high.
Can you elaborate on tech censorship being bad for children? I'd be comfortable with restricting access to certain sites on my home network if I had kids.
Censorship, especially driven by large institutions effectively disarms people's cognitive abilities over time. Your ability to learn to think requires you to be exposed to a large range of possible ideas, some novel, others outright silly.
The problem is that ultimately "harmful content" is much narrower than social engineers would like to admit. A great deal of legitimately harmful content is evidence of or glorification of crime that itself is very often already criminal.
Dragnet surveillance and top-down censorship do little to address these crimes, and the costs are very high.