Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig makes a daft suggestion: require adult content providers to wrap <porn> ... </porn> around the naughty stuff, and direct brower developers to ignore such tags unless a parent approves.
This fails in the same way domain schemes such as .xxx or .adult fail:
- There can be no universal standard for defining content inappropriate for minors,
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and such a regime would be easily gamed by anyone wanting to use the government to censor content they don’t like.
The technique is simple, just find a friendly jurisdiction and seek an injunction forcing anyone providing content about birth control, sex education, rape prevention, gay rights, and anything else controversial to wrap it in the aforementioned
porntag. - Besides, the parental control would be routed around faster than you can say DVD Jon.
Ugh, bad idea Professor, just walk away.
