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

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

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Post by techdmn »

codedokode wrote: post #101
throwaw3y wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't you think our society has already pushed too far in the direction of mandated helicopter parenting? You can hardly let your kids play independently nowadays in the US without getting a CPS check-up due to someone believing kids should be on leashes; what your proposing is significantly more draconian

Maybe, but why normal people without children need to experience inconvenience, Internet restrictions and verifications just because there are a minority of negligent parents? Children are parents responsibility. Instead of banning adult sites, is not it better to ban families with children from Internet? Make some family-friendly Internet and let them all go there and not bother normal people.

You are punching down instead of up. The problem is not children, or parents, but the state trying to enforce restrictions.

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

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Post by Tangurena2 »

palata wrote: post #102

Reading the comments here, I see a lot of criticism along the line of "age verification doesn't work, it's completely stupid". I believe it is counter-productive, because "not having age verification" is a lost battle. Unlike E2EE (where it is impossible to give access "only to the good guys"), it is possible to implement age verification in a privacy-preserving manner. And look at the ChatControl fight: even though…

That won't happen. Because the intent of the people pushing for "age verification" has nothing to do with the "think about the children" moral panic. It has to do with eliminating encryption and eliminating online anonymity. It is a dog whistle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)#

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Code_word

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic

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

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Post by a96 »

techdmn wrote: post #111
codedokode wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe, but why normal people without children need to experience inconvenience, Internet restrictions and verifications just because there are a minority of negligent parents? Children are parents responsibility. Instead of banning adult sites, is not it better to ban families with children from Internet? Make some family-friendly Internet and let them all go there and not bother normal people.

You are punching down instead of up. The problem is not children, or parents, but the state trying to enforce restrictions.

The problem is all the complacent people not fighting this obvious dystopian spiral.

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

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Post by seydor »

zeec123 wrote: post #25

The result will be age verification with a passport or ID "to protect the children". Probably this was the goal all along.

I assume that everyone's ID is identifiable by willing state actors (at least adults) . Perhaps they want to create databases of possible child terrorists?

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

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Post by forlorn_mammoth »

teeray wrote: post #104
eszed wrote: post #2

Of course they do. Only fools expected anything else. Does else anyone remember the "age verification" on '80s video games? Some of them were hilarious. I think it was Leisure Suit Larry that asked multiple choice history questions that I guess were meant to be impossible for fifth graders to guess. I was the local history nerd, so I remember getting calls from classmates, like "we're trying to get into a game; when…

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.

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

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Post by mothballed »

mjmas wrote: post #107
codedokode wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe, but why normal people without children need to experience inconvenience, Internet restrictions and verifications just because there are a minority of negligent parents? Children are parents responsibility. Instead of banning adult sites, is not it better to ban families with children from Internet? Make some family-friendly Internet and let them all go there and not bother normal people.

> let them all go there and not bother normal people. The normal state does include people with children.

Probably not in places like Germany where over half the population is over 45. As US becomes more like child-devoid europe, it will become even more hostile to children. And parents will be more and more slaves to the state, to raise children however society says they ought to be raised. The purpose of the parent is to pay and be punished, the purpose of the outsider is to rest on the smug shoulders of the state and proclaim how morally superior they are at no cost to themselves.

As it becomes increasingly apparent having children is a suckers game where everyone piles on the penalties to you while eagerly awaiting the social security payments of your children (you make ~all the investment, then they take the profits), they will have even fewer.

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

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Post by anthk »

contubernio wrote: post #78
kleiba2 wrote: post #19

They also use VPNs, as anyone would have predicted within two seconds. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o Consequently, we're now discussing VPN bans for under 18 year olds . https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo

The vpn ban movement also has support from powerful (and corrupt) entities like the Spanish football federation ...

Go tell Tebas that the AEPD fines over LaLiga app can be astronomically huge. Also, telecomms' disruption and suplantation (MITM) in Spain can make both Tebas, the ISP CEO's (and mid managers) among the judge jailed in the spot.
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