this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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If parents had the same kind of control over their kids devices that I have over corporate client devices this wouldn't be an issue.
Parents need to be given the power to control the technology that they own. People should own the stuff they buy too.
The solution to having too many children playing in the street at night is not to check everyone's ID before they leave the house but to instead give parents the ability to lock the door and hold them responsible when they don't.
The solution to unsupervised children is not supervising adulthood. Killing off anonymity won't protect the children.
Oh! BTW, headwind MDM is open source and self-hostable I might end up hosting it for my future children
Something tells me if you're the kind of person who is looking up MDM to self host and at least flirting with the idea of reading the open source code on a project or going to implement... Your kids are a little less at risk for commercial exposure.
I'm not saying I'm assuming you're perfect, but I think it's safe to assume you're doing more to mitigate exposure to commercialization than 90% of parents. I want the restrictions placed on the companies to the benefit of parents.
You shouldn't have to be a computer engineer to have ready access to comprehensive parental controls that allow you to manage what you want how you want and in line with your sensibilities rather than being at the mercy of whatever some corporate boardroom has decided is the most profitable way to addict your whole family to convenient advertising delivery systems and minimalistic interface casinos.
I didn't say anywhere that ID-gating the internet was a solution. You're barking up the wrong tree mate.