The main reason governments aren't doing a lot about it (or haven't been) is because it's amazingly hard to do so. They're starting to do more recently though, mainly about child pornography and illegal file sharing (music and films) - quite rightly since these are illegal activites, but regulating things like language, legal adult content, drugs references and violence is up to individual parents - in the same way that it's their responsibility to regulate what their child watches on TV and in the cinema. We shouldn't have to sacrifice the freedom of consenting adults to take responsibility for what they find on the internet in order to protect teenagers - we should help them to protect themselves.
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