Right here is my ten pence worth and it is not nice.
When you buy a computer whatever size it is, you need to install or have it come with an anti virus program, this is to hopefully protect you the user. But what you are not told about is pop-ups, yes those annoying adverts Andy is telling you about. To prevent this you go into your computer settings and set your computer settings to NOT send data of what you do on your computer to the likes of Microsoft etc 'So that they can enhance your use in the future'. That is cr4p, it is so that they can build a picture of who you are and what you like to view, to also prevent this you take on a program like IP Vanish which hides you from the world. And those annoying pop-ups with ads from BMW to anal cream to dating sites and more can be stopped by installing a program like Pop-up Stopper.
Now we come down to the nitty gritty, Parental Control, this is where the main problem lays, it is not the internet or Googles or any of the web providers fault, it is the bone idle or ignorant parent who gives in to their childs whims and wants, get junior a lap top, tablet, phone or whatever and introduce them to the WWW - and once they know how to connect to it then the parent can ignore the child, teen or whatever and go back to their social life on their moble. It is the parents responsibility to make sure their child is safe and also to know what their child is getting up to and viewing. Would any sane parent whose child loves cars and trucks take them and leave them next to the motorway to entertain themselves for a couple of hours - of course not, and it is the same with the web. It is the responsibility of the parent, not the bloke down the street or Bill Gates or even Andy himself to be responsible for what your child watches on the www, it is the parents.
Have you noticed how the parents scream and wail when junior has got hold of their credit card and run up a few thousand on it, and the parent does not even supervise what the kid is paying for, but when the sex toys and the blow up dolly appear on the doorstep who do they blame - why the bank! for not stopping the card, but never themselves... Ignorance is not a defence.
My wife to a certain degree is computer illiterate, but even she has learned that I keep a wary on on where she is on the net and she is an adult. But in the world today the opinion of a great number of parents is that, I spit the kid out, now you look after it, my nine months of responsibility are at an end.
I am sorry to be so blunt but I am tired and sick to my back teeth of Lefties, snowflakes and the like telling me that I have to be responsible for others, when those who should be responsible for them are more interested in their own private time than what the kid is up to. And because of their crass self importance, the rest of us have to suffer. And as for these governing bodies, they really need to get out in life and to examine what is actually on You Tube and the educational value it has, and start to educate the parents that it is they that are responsible for what their child is viewing - and if they are not sure or have any suspicions - then take the computer off them untill they become responsible enough to use it, and stop blaming society for their crass idleness.