Parental controls means the control is done by the parents… not by the companies. I don’t need to tell any company what age bracket my kid might be, all I need is for them to tell me how can I block / restrict access to their services in my parent-controlled network (or how to allow them, if using allowlist).
Standardization of parental controls would be if routers and/or the OS of the devices came with standardized proxy settings that allowed privoxy-style blocking of sites in a customizable way so we can decide which services to allow… with perhaps blocklists / allowlists circulating in a similar way as adblockers do.
If a web service wants to offer a highly restricted and actively moderated kid-friendly version of their service, they can allocate a subdomain for that so we can choose to allow only access to that subdomain. No need for them to ask personal information from us so that THEY can make the decision… they are the ones who need to provide facilities to us so WE can make the decision.
Parental controls means the control is done by the parents… not by the companies. I don’t need to tell any company what age bracket my kid might be, all I need is for them to tell me how can I block / restrict access to their services in my parent-controlled network (or how to allow them, if using allowlist).
Standardization of parental controls would be if routers and/or the OS of the devices came with standardized proxy settings that allowed privoxy-style blocking of sites in a customizable way so we can decide which services to allow… with perhaps blocklists / allowlists circulating in a similar way as adblockers do.
If a web service wants to offer a highly restricted and actively moderated kid-friendly version of their service, they can allocate a subdomain for that so we can choose to allow only access to that subdomain. No need for them to ask personal information from us so that THEY can make the decision… they are the ones who need to provide facilities to us so WE can make the decision.