It's clear from this article your historical relationship with a search agent like Google can inform their sense of need to check ID: I have a 20+ year old google identity and they know me inside out.
I also tend to hammer on about homomorphic encryption. There is no need for a third party who sees your 100pts identity checks to know where you go. For me personally, noting a technical fix to a social problem is unusual, I tend to say it's a mistake to reach for tech fixing society, but the paranoia around "the government sees my activity proving who I am" has a specific, cryptographically defined solution.
It’s simply none of their business.
Parents have commercially available solutions for censoring their own home internet if they choose.
They and the government has no need to track my activities online to do so.
PS: The Australian Government says they can be trusted with this power but has abused it every time. Every. Time.
Look I get it, I'll probably be in VPN too sometimes. But you kind of delivered my message: you hate it, you don't seem to think a LOT of parents will want it.
Clean feed DNS is only so useful.
I'm guessing you also don't like MyGov ID either. Or Hawk's Australia card. Personally I like one stop shop for my tax and medicals and centrelink.
So what abuse specifically are you referring to in "this power" and abuse? Police access? ASIO access?