# Protecting Your Kid From the Internet

DevFeed: [Protecting Your Kid From the Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/protecting-your-kid-from-the-internet-28113.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/2020/01/13/protecting-your-kid-from-the-internet.html>)

Author: Fuzzygroup

Published: 2020-01-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Scott Johnson](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/scott-johnson.md>)

Topics: [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>)

Tags: [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [network-traffic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network-traffic.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>)

## AI overview

An opinion post discusses the challenges of protecting children from inappropriate online content and recommends Internet filtering for households with young users. It focuses on Disney Circle, a hardware device that intercepts Wi-Fi traffic, blocks selected categories, and provides granular parental controls, while noting compatibility concerns with mesh networking products such as Eero.

## Source excerpt

I don't care how permissive / how liberal a parent you are, I suspect that you would have problems with your relatively young kid (let's say under 18) going into a place like this: I look at putting the Internet into your home without some kind of Internet filtering as analogous to letting your kids walk into a place like this and not stopping them. In the rest of this post I'll talk about Internet filtering and the first ever product, Disney Circle, that I've found is worth using My Credentials to Even Write This On a personal level I am a husband and father (two sons, 18 and 13). I'm also a software engineer who has been active on the Internet since the pre-web days and I've spent a large amount of my professional life dealing with spam and bad actors on the Internet. Finally I'm a firm believer in free speech and as my wife might comment, I'm the furthest thing from a prude in any way, shape or form. Those last two points, free speech and not being a prude make this a hard post for me to write as I am generally philosophically opposed to Internet filtering. Now, that said, I would never let my kid walk into a place like that pictured above and I don't think you should either - what happens there is an adult activity and there is a reason why its actually illegal to be in there if you're under 18. Internet Filtering Overview Internet filtering is just that - the idea of selectively blocking portions of the Internet i.e. filtering. From the bits, bytes and megabytes perspective, internet filtering is a hard technical problem for a whole bunch of reasons. And, alas, those actually don't matter all that much so I'm going to skip nerding out here as much as I might like to do a deep dive into Internet architecture. Disney Circle Disney Circle is a hardware box that plugs into your wifi network and acts to intercept network traffic and block things that fall into the category of malicious stuff including: Porn Gambling Drug related content There are a variety of well t