Comment on Won’t Somebody Please Think Of Banning The British Children! by M

A lot of problems could be solved if they simply put the responsibility to parent in the hands of parents and gave them tools to do their job, instead of trying shift the burden of parenting onto strangers.

We've had decent enough opt-in parental controls since at least the days of windows XP, and it's far less intrusive to have sites simply label (eg. in response headers) the age bracket of certain content. A parent can then customize what sites to block, what sites to whitelist, and what age level they want to set.

All while devices can go on assuming their users are adults out-of-the-box because parents are there to set this up any way they like on any device they buy for their child. And this only need apply to big names with lots of users, like Windows, Apple, or Android. If someone can compile a custom version of their OS, they're more likely than not to be an adult.