They are already doing it with NIST CSF and most companies are following that framework because there is no better option. PCI and HIPPA are also a thing, this would be similar.
> And what would be the criteria for “legitimizing” a piece of filtering software that didn’t involve ideology?
It works across various site and content, discloses capability and passes privacy and security requirements. The details of what criteria it uses is not regulated, but what it can't use is. It can include abortion for example or not include it, but it can't include "police services" or "black people" because preventing kids from accessing the police or discriminating protected groups is not legal already. FTC cannot force companies to filter specific content, it will leave it to the market to demand lawful categories parents want to use. Even adults want this.
Neither of those are political or ideological. No one is arguing on any side of the aisle that companies should be able to indiscriminately share medical or financial information.
> It can include abortion
Why can it include abortion? To me and many others, abortion should be no more of a religious argument than whether I can get psuedophredrine to treat sinuses. The government already pressured companies to suppress information early on in Covid that everyone now agrees shouldn’t have been suppressed - that the vaccines were not 100% effective and that you could still spread Covid if vaccinated.
> FTC cannot force companies to filter specific content, it will leave it to the market to demand lawful categories parents want to use. Even adults want this.
And the “market” already has filtering mechanisms that allow parents to filter what their children can see. It’s built into iOS and the carriers offer a service.
> And what would be the criteria for “legitimizing” a piece of filtering software that didn’t involve ideology?
It works across various site and content, discloses capability and passes privacy and security requirements. The details of what criteria it uses is not regulated, but what it can't use is. It can include abortion for example or not include it, but it can't include "police services" or "black people" because preventing kids from accessing the police or discriminating protected groups is not legal already. FTC cannot force companies to filter specific content, it will leave it to the market to demand lawful categories parents want to use. Even adults want this.