Parental supervision required
Parental supervision required
Posted Mar 12, 2026 2:47 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Parental supervision required by dskoll
Parent article: California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions
> I would have no issue is this were an optional feature of an OS.
Of course this will always be "optional" somewhat because it will be at the very possible easy to defeat.
Android parental control is pretty hard to defeat today, but nothing stops a kid from buying a cheap used phone and setting it up from scratch while lying about their age. Yet parental control is still very useful because not every kid wants to go that far. As a parent you cannot be constantly watching over your kids' shoulder; that's what parental control is for.