Websites could easily add X-Recommended-Age or X-Content-Rating headers where browsers could enforce a decent set of filters for adult-oriented content.
Popular platforms, I think, have age ratings on streams (twitch stream age tags), youtube, etc
The above would cover 90% of content-related concerns and combined with things like cloudflare dns filtering you'd have a relatively safe internet experience.
The interacting-whith-people (or oddball harms like character.ai) concerns can then be more easily policed by parents.
The industry has chosen not to implement basic controls and is asking for government controls.
Websites could easily add X-Recommended-Age or X-Content-Rating headers where browsers could enforce a decent set of filters for adult-oriented content.
Popular platforms, I think, have age ratings on streams (twitch stream age tags), youtube, etc
The above would cover 90% of content-related concerns and combined with things like cloudflare dns filtering you'd have a relatively safe internet experience.
The interacting-whith-people (or oddball harms like character.ai) concerns can then be more easily policed by parents.
The industry has chosen not to implement basic controls and is asking for government controls.