(September 10, 2015 at 7:59 pm)abaris Wrote: It doesn't seem to be especially targeted at LGBT. It just tells them all the websites they visited.
I'm kinda split on this, since on the one hand, if you have children, you have to have some kind of control over their internet habits. But on the other hand, there's that part of me saying, none of your business.
The amount of control one should have over one's children depends on many things, such as their age. A 6 year old and a 12 year old are vastly different, and they are vastly different from a 16 year old. What one should allow and what one should prevent and what one should watch is rather variable. Unfortunately, children are at the mercy of their parents on this, and parents vary a great deal in how reasonable they are and in how nice they are.
If I were a parent (and I wisely avoided all of these sorts of problems by deciding not to be a parent), I would let my child know what I was watching and what I was not watching in advance, with the tightest controls and watching when young, with things loosening over time. I would not do clandestine spying on my children. I don't think that is a good thing, as it tends to erode trust both ways. I would want my children to be able to trust me, and I would want to be able to trust them.
Of course, I am also not going to be upset if my daughter turns out to be a lesbian, so I am not everyone. (In fact, my wife and I would break out the Champagne if we had a daughter who turned out to be a lesbian, as there would be less worry about a teen pregnancy or STDs.)
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
