So..do you realize that you just said that you support child pornography?
Did I? Or did I say that the systems to disable MMS on the iPhone don't work for s**t?
I also said I don't agree with censorship, which again is true. Make it illegal to possess or distribute child porn by all means, but I don't believe censorship should be implemented for any reason, especially when it's so easy to bypass.
Besides, child porn laws exist to protect children from peadophiles, not to stop teenagers sending pictures of themselves to peers. I hate that these laws are being abused in the US to deal with "sexting" which has, by the way, been going on one way or another ever since paintings have existed.
Again, this is a USER CONTROLLED FEATURE. That the users themselves control, so it's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people that wan't to control that their devices doesn't get jailbroken, such as companies, schools..and parents.
It makes no difference who's controlling it, censorship is censorship.
Teenagers know a lot more than parents about technology, and as I already told you, it'd be trivial to set up a Cydia package to remove parental controls, which I think is enough of an incentive for a teenager to carry out the simple process of running a jailbreak on his or her iPhone.
It's not about censoring. It's just a technologic application of what we do everyday. We punish bad behavior and/or reward good (or absence of bad). It's also about subconscious training - if we know we're not allowed to use certain word we will stop. This is something we're trained in every day when we're young, and as our communication via technology increases we have to be taught how to behave there too. Just have a look at the internet today..perfectly good people that will behave as total cocks when behind a computer screen.
Telling someone to stop swearing is not the same as shoving a system down their throats which prevents them from doing so at all.
It's in human nature that we, as kids, test our boundaries. It's essential for development that we are able to do this. When a kid swears and an adult tells them off for it, it has the effect you describe. But if they are having their messages censored, it'll make them want to swear - and by extension, rebel - even more, even if only out of frustration.
It is indeed parents job to educate their children. However, right now to get a look at how they behave in these mediums we have to read their stuff. With this service, we could instead be alerted if they don't behave and talk about it with them. The best way to tech kids is to let them do it, then talk with them about it. This will allow us to be notified when they do the mistakes.
So, the best way to bring your kids up is to spy on them? Do you also follow your kids around and "talk to them about it" when they tell their friends something you don't like in real life, then?
We should let them make their own mistakes. One mistake we shouldn't let them experience by themselves is, for example, communicating with a pedophile. If we can protect them from this without breaching their privacy, that's awesome.
You
are talking about breaching their privacy, first of all, and second, the best way to stop your kids from communicating with peadophiles is education. Make sure they know how be safe and how to avoid danger. Don't spy on them.
