Protect Children, Preserve Privacy, Internet Freedom: Pick Two

Kids are incredible. They learn things frighteningly fast. Give a five-year-old a tablet, and fifteen minutes later they know how to install apps, open YouTube, use voice search, skip ads, and find cartoons you didn't even know existed. Somewhere around minute twenty they also discover the one button you wish they hadn't pressed. They are equally talented in two areas: learning new technologies and lying to their parents about how they use them. So when we hand them a smartphone as the universal answer to curiosity - "Google it" - we shouldn't be surprised when they master the device faster than we master the consequences. Now governments are trying to fix the consequences. Only about twenty years after the technology escaped the lab and moved into every kid's pocket. It's appropriate to ask the question: how exactly are they going to enforce it? 1. How could governments realistically control it? There are only a few technical options. A) Self-declared age (current model) "Enter your b