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

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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.

I don't think that the larry games where to be released to the whole world.

Life is sweet, when you life in the cultural nexus that is a English speaking country and do not have to pay the translation tax.

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

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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

Vpns are really under attack this year. All the LLM providers desperately don't want to have the majority of users using them. It's basically the leading reason why quantum computing is being funded. They gotta break your encryption to read your activity. Pretty sad world.

I2PD supports quantum-resistant encryption schemes. On LLM's, no sane hacker would use that turd ever. Free as in freedom software it's incompatible with a 66GB slopware acting as a SAAS with source stealing and relicense laundering.

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

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Why do you think Google, the world's largest ad company, is paying money out of its ears to research those topics? The sooner people realize all major us tech companies are contractors for the us department of war the better.

That's FUD.

Meta it's behind all age laws. Guess why.

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

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We all knew this wouldn't work (at least anyone who grew up during and after the 80s). These "rules", in the best-case scenario, are just useless bureaucracy or bloat in the name of good intentions. In the worst case, they have nothing to do with protecting kids and are just paving the way for what comes next.

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

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> 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…

If you feel that parents are treated unfairly, the solution is to impose a tax on people without children and use it to pay the salary for raising kids. I think everybody agrees that monetary support is much better than verbal and moral support.

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

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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…

Wonder if she has a burner phone so she can talk to her friends. You've probably made her paranoid enough to know better than connect it to your wifi.

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

#127
When I was a kid, I went as far as to install a key-logger on the computer to get the master password from the parental controls, silently disabling them when I wanted and enabling them again when I'm done so parents would never notice.

It's almost sad this AI age verification bs doesn't even pose too big of a challenge for kid's creativity

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

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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.

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

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post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Yes, one of the biggest mistakes I see some people without children make is believing that they have no vested interest in people raising children.

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

#130

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.
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