DRAFT | Parental Control On Children Act | PROPOSAL

[Crazybloxian Empire]

This proposal is designed with the goal to prevent exposure of inappropriate content to children, and to ease the worries of parents on the matter. This proposal, if passed, shall hereby

Section 1. On the Internet

a). Ensure the availability of parental controls on all computers, regardless of type, and is handled by children.

b). If possible, costs of parental control software shall be lowered by at least 25% percent.

c). Requires that all developers of parental control software provide free trials on their software, lasting for a minimum of 2 weeks.

c2). To compensate loss of profits, subsidies shall be given to all devs in ownership of parental control software.

c2-1). Ownership of parental control software, either by an individual, or a group, which are defined as Companies, define that the software must have been coded, designed, or devised by the aforementioned individual or group.

d). To make parental controls available to all parents across all the nations of the WA.

e). To encourage owners of parental control software to make their software free.

f). Increase the awareness of the methods of bypassing parental controls, devised or planned by any person, of any age.

g). To encourage parents to know the dangers of the Internet and educate it to children.

h). Encourage the prevention of exposure of dangerous material (e.g creepypastas, pornography, and graphic images) to children that could ruin their lives in any way.

i). To encourage internet service providers to immediately report data about children browsing habits (e.g browsing history) to parents immediately.
Section 2. On the TV or Games

a). To encourage parents to monitor their children's TV watching more, to prevent inappropriate content from reaching children.

b). Encourage parents to check game ratings for games requested by children, and check maturity level.

c). Enhance the work of game rating agencies to reach a larger variety of games and rate them.

d). Require the presence of game rating labels on video games.

e). Increase the presence of TV Rating icons.

[Mzeusia]

h). Encourage the prevention of exposure of dangerous material (e.g creepypastas, pornography, and graphic images) to children that could ruin their lives in any way.

b). Encourage the prevention of exposure of dangerous material (e.g creepypastas, pornography, and graphic images) to children that could ruin their lives in any way.

That the same thing. I've not really done editing of WA proposals before so that might be okay.

[The First German Order]

The German ambassador, Amelia, is extremely confused. "This seems more like a national problem," she says. "And even then, it's not a problem in all nations. It should be a parent's job to determine how much to monitor and restrict their activities on electronics and a national government's job to legislate on the technologies used to do so," she adds. She turns and has a quiet conversation with her aide for a minute before turning back to face the Crazybloxian ambassador. "This resolution will receive no support from us," she says, still visibly confused, though less confused than before.

[Imperium Anglorum]

I don’t think I will support this proposal. It simply isn’t the right responsibility of the state to do the job of parenting.

Actually, on further reflection... It certainly is the state’s responsibility to prevent abuse by those parents. And I think that helicopter parenting of the sort described here could qualify. I will therefore, support a proposal regulating and prohibiting privacy intrusion of the sort described here.

[Jebslund]

My suggested changes in red, my notes in blue. IC notes in green.

This proposal is designed with the goal to prevent exposure of inappropriate content to children, and to ease the worries of parents on the matter. This proposal, if passed, The World Assembly shall hereby decrees all member nations shall Get rid of this. It is unnecessary and a violation of GA proposal rules (proposals must be written as the laws they will become, not proposals).

Section1.On the Internet

a). Ensure the availability of parental controls on all computers, regardless of type, and is handled by children.

b). If possible, require the costs of parental control software shall to be lowered by at least 25% percent.

c). Requires that all developers of parental control software provide free trials on their software, lasting for a minimum of 2 weeks.

c2). To compensate loss of profits, subsidies shall be given to all devs in ownership of parental control software. This may constitute a contradiction violation. GA proposals cannot dictate how governments spend their money.

c2-1). Ownership of parental control software, either by an individual, or a group, which are defined as Companies, define that the software must have been coded, designed, or devised by the aforementioned individual or group.

d). To Make parental controls available to all parents across all the nations of the WA.

e). To Encourage owners of parental control software to make their software free.

f). Increase the awareness of the methods of bypassing parental controls, devised or planned by any person, of any age.

g). To Encourage parents to know the dangers of the Internet and educate it to children.

h). Encourage the prevention of exposure of dangerous material (e.g creepypastas, pornography, and graphic images) to children that could ruin their lives in any way. This is not the job of governments. The right to determine what material a child can handle is that of the parents, and, furthermore, there is little to no evidence pornography does so when the child has received competent sexual education. -Sofia

i). To Encourage internet service providers to immediately report data about children browsing habits (e.g browsing history) to parents immediately. Aaaaaaand you've lost me. This is not only an unacceptable invasion of privacy with no legal basis (easily gotten around if one were to change the wording so that this would only be encouraged for reasons of imminent danger...), it is also highly irresponsible, as children have been abandoned over differences of opinion with their parents. -Sofia

Section2.On the TV or Games
a). To Encourage parents to monitor their children's TV watching more, to prevent inappropriate content from reaching children. As determined by parents, not by a nanny-state. -Sofia

b). Encourage parents to check game ratings for games requested by children, and check maturity level.

c). Enhance the work of game rating agencies to reach a larger variety of games and rate them.

d). Require the presence of game rating labels on video games.

e). Increase the presence of TV Rating icons.

[Kenmoria]

"What is the category and strength of this proposal?"

[Alsace and Lorraine United]

Requiring companies to require free trials! I cannot support this government over each into a private industry

[Jebslund]

Requiring companies to require free trials! I cannot support this government over each into a private industry

Sofia Kerman rises. "When a company fails in its responsibility to deliver a functional, safe product, the government must step in. Safety features should not be locked behind paywalls. It would be no different than requiring payment on top of the price of an automobile in order to have seatbelts and a rear-view mirror.".

[Kenmoria]

"You have no preamble of any sort; add one. They are very helpful for explaining why this proposal is, in your eyes, a good idea."

[Australian rePublic]

But ambassador, what if you don't have any children in your home?

[Kenmoria]

"This is very controlling and restrictive upon member nations and parents. Therefore, we will not support this measure. Also, it is convention to use the i, ii, iii, iv system for nested subclauses, which you have under 1c."

[Sierra Lyricalia]

"You want private companies to track children's browsing habits? Absolutely not!"

OOC: That provision would contradict GA Res. #213, which (thankfully) does not contain an exception for children. Actually, the entire idea might be a no-go in light of that resolution: not because parents may not install such software, but because states may not require its use outside of (e.g.) public libraries or state-supported wifi networks.