How would you feel about age restrictions for internet use?

Do we REALLY need more laws because people are too dumb to take parenting seriously?

The many that agree to this seem to think it's beter for the gov to raise their kids.

Do you REALLY want to give the government the power to further restrict our freedoms?

I don't.

It should be up to the parent(s) whether or not their child has access to the internet, not the government. If a parent doesn't want their kid online, it is his/her responsibility to keep them off.

Last Edited by KonspiracyKitty on 12/18/2014 04:33 PM

Fuak No...Fauk No...Fauk no

We don't need any fucking law regulating the internet...

all that does is set precedent to go fauking crazy with other laws aimed at the internet...

Kids have to use the Internet for school in this day and age. I guess we could let our schools monitor their use. SHUDDER!

And how would you regulate this?
Biometric scanners on the mouse and webcam to ensure the kid isn't logging into a parents account?

It's 18 in the UK to be able to buy alcohol. You can drink it at home or at a private party with your parents permission at pretty much any age.

You need restrictions for MENTAL age.

Maybe the age restriction should be 80 and below. Those that live past away with have the privilege of the internet, in their gold years, after retiring from working in the fields.

My 8 year old grandson loves Minecraft so not fair

What would the legal definition of "Internet use" be?

Would be my first question.

I see the point in it, and TV would have to be age restricted also, i imagine my self at 12 a lot bullshit would have been avoided if i had not had access back then
But all the big media corporations will fight to the death against these suggestions because there is billions to be made via commercials, the young ones are a big factor of the consumer target groups they advertise to
:)

The same schools that push pedophilia and sex with peanut butter as lube.

Yeah. NO

Bullshit. It's not a privilege, it's a right.

We can learn much from China

No.
More.
Fucking.
Laws.

Totally against it.

It is the parents' job, not the government's, to raise children.

I'm going to add that while it may be a good idea in theory, it's kind of like age-based schooling and the like.

Your 13 year old may be intellectually little more than an infant while mine needs to study for her AP Genetics class.

Segregation based upon age is arbitrary and ridiculous.

We don't mature based upon our chronological age, and restrictions based upon age only serve to hurt the people who are intelligent beyond their years. Not to mention that those who want to access the internet will always do so.

Seems to be too much effort for no gain.

Would make gaming a lot less fuckin annoying. 12 year old kids raging out with curse words they just learned and still don't know how to properly implement into a sentence.

But in all seriousness no. I'm a huge advocate for a completely unregulated internet. This is OURS. We build it, we maintain it. It is public domain and we need to fight to keep it that way. Once the government starts trying to regulate what information we are allowed to see, it won't stop at an age limit. The bill will be amended over and over and will end up being a total internet regulation construct. If you are for this type of thing, you are a fool.

Op is a govt bot with ulterior motives

LOL
Even though I'm almost there at old fart status myself, that was a pretty good one!

That only works if the same rules are applied in the home and in the school

FOR ALL YOU DUMB SHEEP. IT WOULD MAKE YOU SIGN IN EVERY TIME YOU WANT TO SURF AND TRACK YOUR EVER MOVE, THEN SEND ALL YOUR INFO TO THE COMPUTER IN UTAH. SO FUCK ALL YOUR RESTRICTIONS,.. STOP PLAY ON THE SHEEPLES INTELLIGENCE OR LACK OF..

I think you'll find all types of media has influenced A LOT of mentally ill people to commit violence and murder way before CreepyPasta or even the internet was around.

Nobody under 6 online except for .kid networks seems fine for me.

You have .kid networks? Oh no, because half of your are chronic bachelors and have nothing to do but look at women that look like your mommies.

And the other half of glp is gay.

Okay, then I fell that even suggesting age restrictions counts for, I need to see your badge sir, you're pulling government behavioral research polls on me and calling it work.

Get out of here.

I'm okay with age restrictions for some websites, but not for intenet use in general. There are lots of kid-friendly websites, but there are also websites with "adult" content that children shouldn't see. Neither should adults, for that matter, see some of the really bad ones!

If movies can be classified, why not websites? How one would enforce these rules is a whole different matter, though. Ultimately it would have to come down to the parents.

What is disturbing is that over a third of respondents would support this idiocy!

Let the government first worry about what people write, say, and think and then no need for the internet access controls suggested [ sarcasm ]