Hence for parents to be vigil. They are the ones who mostly pay for their kids to have internet access on their devices. Parents should not be naive and think their kids will be okay on their own in any regard. There are smart preventative measures that can be taken to filter what can be seen on Google searches. Key words and IP Addresses can be put in filters to block sites. I'm aware that poor parenting can come from single parented families or even wealthy families that don't pay attention to what their kids access on the internet.
That is true, but you still have the well known sites like pornhub, that Google is not needed to find, not to mention thousands of other free porn sites that kids could get referrals to from other people.
So, blocking each of them individually would be impossible.
You also have referrals from friends on discord and other chatroom type sites and apps online.
Many of the game devs here, including I believe, Agent Red have a discord channel that someone could refer them to.
You also have free internet proxy pages that can be used to circumvent restrictions in place against accessing specific pages.
Even the Opera browser has a built in anonymous proxy that could be used for that.
My point is that if the kids want to access porn, they will find a way.
The only options that parents can use that will work, are to heavily restrict their access to the internet, with a family computer in a common room that everyone in the household uses.
Most people know this, but some parents are blind, and consider their children to be angels who would never do anything wrong, like lie and choose "Yes, I am over 18 years old" on a website, when they are not.
Either way, the parents are the ones solely responsible if their kids access adult content, because they gave them too much access to the internet, which is well known as a dangerous place for children...
Each parent has to choose, for themselves what is the best protection for their child.
I agree with Agent Red, the word used should have been college, but the game should still be on Steam with that word changed to college, for the people who are old enough and want that content.
Because I do not believe that any of us has the right to determine what other "adults" have the right to access, on a site that does indeed have a working age access control system in place.
Steam has not only porn games, but some ultra violent video games that are also age restricted.
And frankly, I would be much happier to find out that my kids were viewing live action smurf porn or Agent Red's game, than playing some of the ultra violent video games that are available.
I'm not talking about games like first person shooters with a military or police theme, but games where you can rack up points for killing people that were just crossing the street.
But as I said, my choices are my own, and I do not think it would be right for them to remove content, because I did not want my kids to see it.
I would always have the choice, of telling the kids no more Steam for you, if I chose to.
As already stated, the adult content is all over the place, and if kids want to get access to it, they will find a way, and there is nothing that parents can do to stop them, other than take away their private use of the internet...
Yeah, you could install a keylogger or similar program on to their computer to monitor them, but that again comes down to a responsible parent doing the right thing, and in the end, restricting the child's access to the internet if needed.
I have a funny story that involves a keylogger, a responsible parent that needed one, and an ex that was a complete idiot.
My ex's aunt had asked me to find a keylogger so that she could monitor how the kids were using the computer, and who they were talking to.
I told her no problem, I would find her a good one that was easy to use, and test it out on my own computer so that I would know enough to teach her how to use it.
I found a good one on a warez site and installed it onto my computer, and even told my ex that I had installed it on my computer and that it was active and would start with windows. (she had her own computer that I had built for her.)
The next night after I got off of work I sat down at my computer and decided to look at the log files from the recorded messages, and the screen captures that it had taken.
well,,,,,, I expected to just find my own conversations, but instead I found my now ex talking to her boyfriend and talking about leaving me, and taking "MY" car. She had a beater Ford Taurus that I had bought cheap for her to get around in.
But she was referring to the car that I drove. A Chrysler 300 SRT8.
That did not happen.
We worked different shifts and by the time that she got home, everything was gone from the living room, kitchen and bedroom, except for her clothes, jewelry, makeup and other things that she had bought.
And printed copies of the conversation with her boyfriend.
She had nothing when she moved in, except her clothes and jewelry.
I had to change my cellphone number a few hours after that...
Damn, I feel like a kid who got told that Christmas is cancelled. Well, good luck with another game.
