Where else are we supposed to get our porn?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why would a 0.94 year old need a computer?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I wouldn't say wrong. I mean, it's done to protect you; you shouldn't be going on the kind of site that would be blocked, anyway. I would say that it's kind of an overprotective way to handle it, but hey, as long as you're in your parents house you have to abide by their rules and restrictions, soo. No use in complaining.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You haven't had a child block, apparently...my mom got wi-fi when I was a senior in high school and it came with a child block that she was too technologically illiterate to get rid of. The stupid things don't just block porn, they block perfectly normal websites just because. For example, I was trying to plan a costume for a convention (yes I'm a nerd), but I couldn't go on any cosplay websites because of it. Luckily you had to pay to keep it more than a couple months, or I would have gone insane.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Most child block programs come with different settings, where you can unblock certain sites. I just don't think it's unreasonable for parents to want to block certain websites on their kid's computer, if it's a page they shouldn't be visiting to begin with.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No use in complaining? Complaining is extremely useful when dealing with parents and a bunch of other things for that matter. Besides child blocks never stop people from seeing anything.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Complaining is annoying. Making an intelligent request? Sure. It doesn't really matter what the child blocks do or don't do; if parents set them, they obviously are trying to protect their child from something, and if child blocks are what help them sleep at night, then ok. If they're really so ineffective then why complain about them anyway?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because it's rude and it's an invasion of privacy. If you can't trust your kid to use the internet, you either have trust issues or you haven't raised you kid properly. Besides, complaining is not bad. If something is unfair, you shouldn't sit back and do nothing, you should complain about it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Rude and an invasion of privacy...? Your parents give you a roof over your head, food to eat, clothes to wear, and if you are complaining about blocking, they have obviously given you a computer as well. They are raising their kid, sacrificing many aspects of their own lives so that their kid can have a good and fun life, and it's "rude and an invasion of privacy" when they want to keep a certain thing out of their kid's life by blocking it on the internet? That's ridiculous. However a parent wants to raise his/her child is up to him/her, and if they don't think certain things are appropriate for their kid to look at, then it's not unreasonable to keep them from it, at least at home. Being able to trust your kid often has nothing to do with raising them improperly; it does sometimes, but a lot of the time kids actually have minds of their own and make poor choices, regardless of what their parents say or do.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Censorship is almost always bad. No society that values art, diversity, or truth would use censorship. By the time a child can read and type they should know how not to endanger themselves online. I think a good parent would expose their child to different viewpoints and ideas not censor them. How is a kid supposed to gain an understanding of the world around her when their parents hide the truth?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hahaha. No kid gets upset at child blocks because they are looking for "different viewpoints" and "understanding of the world", unless the program is blocking every other site just for fun, in which case merely requesting the settings be altered is a simple solution. Most of the time, kids get mad because they can't look up porn and such. That's not "art, diversity, or truth", it's temporary immature sexual satisaction, and it's not at all unreasonable for parents to want to make it inaccessible to their kid. And anyway, didn't you just say that child blocks don't do anything anyway? If that is the case, then why is it such a big deal? Kids can just get their "art, diversity, or truth" outside the house, not just from a computer screen.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Its absolutely ridiculous. What is even more ridiculous however- is their obliviousness to the fact that we can get by so many of them.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My mom is so clueless, whenever she actually does notice something like the explicit ratings on my iTunes or that I get a rated R movie from Netflix she gets mad for 5 seconds then completely forgets about it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Truly lucky. I mean I understand why our parents would want to block some websites looking from their point of view, but sometime they just go ahead and go blocking crazy. I guess even though blocking doesn't stop us from getting access to whatever we want to see, the parents at least think that they did their best to protect their child from the bad stuffs in the world nonetheless we will face it later on. Just hate it when they block totally normal websites amd got overprotective

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm sorry that sucks :/ IMO parents shouldn't block stuff for a kid who is past say 15, because anything bad they might be looking at they'll see one way or another and a teenager should be mature enough to handle whatever they're searching.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly, but unfortunately, my parents hold the policy of "trust but verified" :(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And as bad as this might sound, sometime they make me feel like I couldn't wait to move out no matter how much I love them. know what I mean?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know just what you mean, even though they're family and you love them, a person still needs some trust and privacy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago