I would say that smartphones should have age filters on them
I agree. We should encourage children to develop an interest in anonymous filter-dodging web access systems like Tor, securely encrypting their messages such that they can’t be monitored for inappropriate language usage, and other related skills while they’re still young.
While your comment does amuse me enough for an upvote, I feel the need to point out that if the children do not have root access to the phone, then they can’t install Tor. As I understand it, rooting a phone is not easy, and I suppose once they have reached the age when they are smart & patient enough to root a phone then they are probably mature enough to deal with the internet.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that. I’ve been able to download and run Tor from plenty of computer user accounts without administrator privileges, so I assumed that you could just download it to a (non-Apple) phone the same way.
I agree. We should encourage children to develop an interest in anonymous filter-dodging web access systems like Tor, securely encrypting their messages such that they can’t be monitored for inappropriate language usage, and other related skills while they’re still young.
While your comment does amuse me enough for an upvote, I feel the need to point out that if the children do not have root access to the phone, then they can’t install Tor. As I understand it, rooting a phone is not easy, and I suppose once they have reached the age when they are smart & patient enough to root a phone then they are probably mature enough to deal with the internet.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that. I’ve been able to download and run Tor from plenty of computer user accounts without administrator privileges, so I assumed that you could just download it to a (non-Apple) phone the same way.
Works by an entirely standard method: download a file from the internet and follow instructions. Easy-peasy :-D