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Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

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Post by mothballed »

noosphr wrote: post #130
clutter55561 wrote: post #106

None of this prohibition works. Kids will find ways around it, authorities will get stricter, rinse and repeat. A total shitshow. A lot of people mentioning off-license/booze/tobacco like that was a success story. It isn’t. Outside main/high streets, kids manage to buy stuff just fine. Success requires enforcement, constant vigilance and heavy penalties. Not applicable to Meta at al. Social media is a drug. Just like…

Jesus christ. Your poor kid. This is how you rise someone that will never talk to you once they turn 30.

Being quietly hated is blissful on the range of ways children can mess with you. If the worse reason they can come up with is hating you because you didn't give them enough free shit in the form of electronics or apps then you're doing pretty good. There will always be a reason why a vindictive person can choose not to talk to you.

At that age I had a half-time job and bought my own shit, except rent. A 17 year old should be doing that if they want their own non-locked-down phone. If they aren't, they should be thankful for whatever they are getting beyond bare necessities.

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Post by mschuster91 »

antiframe wrote: post #137
glenngillen wrote: post #94

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My 12yo son is already significantly taller than me! We had to use his passport to prove he’s much younger than these systems report because they were locking him out from chatting to his friends (said the age gap was too big)

Wait, am I understanding correctly: for your child to chat with their friends you had you send a copy of their passport to a stranger in the Internet because "a system" thought they were older looking that their friends? What are we doing even?

> What are we doing even?

We forced parents to both work 40 hours and more including commutes and mandatory overtime, which led to an insane demand to have "safe spaces" for children where they do not need a parent.

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Post by AyyEye »

gambiting wrote: post #46
lazyasciiart wrote: post #38

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I love this story. I remember seeing two pre-literate kindergarten kids playing on a gameboy or similar handheld, one of them teaching the other strings of button presses for things like “save game” - just navigating through all the menus by memory.

I played through the entire Pokemon Yellow without understanding a lick of english. You just remembered what the commands did, and you learnt by experimenting.

Thanks for this comment -- it dredged up a memory I had almost forgotten.

I did this but inverted. When only pokemon red/blue were out in the US I downloaded a rom for pokemon yellow (discovered on whatever p2p I was using at the time) when searching for pokemon to play in an emulator. I didn't know it existed at the time and it was in Japanese. When I told my friends "pikachu follows you around!" None of them believed me.

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Post by giantg2 »

I'm honestly tired of all this age verification stuff. It's on parents to monitor their kids, if needed, beyond the existing checks. We need to get out of thr mindset of total control.

Even highly regulated stuff like alcohol sales won't stop kids from grabbing bread yeast and a frozen juice concentrate to make their own if they really want to and the parents aren't parenting.

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Post by gschizas »

throwthrowuknow wrote: post #95
21asdffdsa12 wrote: post #4

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Nowhere does the us "center of the universe" mindset shine more through, then when to expect the world to remember the presidential dogs name.

That wasn’t the era of global releases via the internet. You had to either buy it in person or, order by mail or get a copy from a BBS. It was an American game made for Americans.

Retail stores existed outside the US, even back then.

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Post by Lio »

phyzix5761 wrote: post #51

What if politicians are creating these systems that are easy to bypass so they have an excuse for starting to officially ID everyone?

I mean it’s no coincidence that Labour adopted the Tory Online Safety Act and at the same time as Keir Starmer started pushing Blair’s old National ID system again.

They’ve wanted total surveillance for quite a while. Now politicians and billionaires are talking about making it happen.

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Post by azinman2 »

cucumber3732842 wrote: post #67
2ndorderthought wrote: post #63

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Lol. Or standing next to a dollhouse or something. Let's be realistic here. All this age verification stuff is pseudoscience and more importantly it isn't tested or standardized at all. It's just theater so the creeps get all the data on your children they can. Meta has made a killing, literally, exploiting children psychology. Social media is the orphan crunching machine for nonorphans or something.

>All this age verification stuff is pseudoscience and more importantly it isn't tested or standardized at all. It's just theater Abdicating responsibility, standards and government enforcement are three of white collar America's favorite things. Seems like an opportunity for someone to become a billionaire by creating a standardization and licensing agency and then paying for some shills to get the ball rolling. Give…

So what would you do to combat the very real problems associated with (unlimited) access to known cognitive harms for minors?

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Post by vavos »

forlorn_mammoth wrote: post #118
teeray wrote: post #104

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It’s hilarious when adults forget how smart a motivated group of children with an ocean of free time can be.

Solution: make sure the kids don't have any free time. Let's schedule their days for optimum productivity instead.

Ah, The steryotipical asian parent approach

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

creaturemachine wrote: post #138
general1465 wrote: post #110

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I can already see angry post on reddit that some short king failed a verification test.

This is the new version of being IDed while in your 30's.

Grey beard here who still has to show id to buy beer (even non-alcoholic beer) at a certain grocery store chain.
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