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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 jermaustin1 »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #37
bilekas wrote: post #31

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And when they need to find a way to circumvent this, they will ask for the full height picture without clothes on. Instead of addressing the problem of this entire idea and implementation they will continue to double down on it.

And that’s how the laws designed to protect children ended up producing the worlds largest collection of photos of naked children.

The UK government already has one of if not THE largest collection of CSAM in the world, called the CAID (Child Abuse Image Database).

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

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Post by luqtas »

iamnothere wrote: post #148

Sounds like we need some common sense mustache control. Fake mustaches should require ID, just like alcohol or cigarettes. Use of a mustache (real or fake) to bypass age verification should be a crime. Think of the children!

we need a state owned and produced hardware with all the rights apps! the bible, wikipedia and Settings for turning down brightness

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

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Post by 13x29a »

I firmly believe that society should rather focus on education, not new restrictions for the broadest audience.

Mandatory age verification may limit some from accessing some types of content, but that's ulikely to actually help with anything other than narrowing perception tunnel for many and maybe stimulating some to hack around like the title suggests.

And that brings costs to society, such as increased security risks (even ZKP - government seeing the data is still a massive point of failure), and infringement of privacy. And populations learn to comply with bs regulations.

While tracking and addictive algos could be blanket banned for everyone regardless of age.

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

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #150
creaturemachine wrote: post #138

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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.

I bought beer in Tennessee, with my visiting mother (obviously 21+), and they ID'd us both (as state law requires).

It tickled her silly that she "got ID'd for the first time in decades."

I didn't have the heart to tell her they HAVE to ID everybody at purchase, here.

She glowed all day, so very happily #RIPmommabear

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

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Post by gambiting »

AyyEye wrote: post #143
gambiting wrote: post #46

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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 believ…

Haha, that's incredibly cool too! I actually played through a rom of Pokemon Green for the exact same reason - it was cool, no one at school believed me Pokemon Green was a real thing.

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

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Post by cindyllm »

mothballed wrote: post #141
noosphr wrote: post #130

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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 s…

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #62
Dylan16807 wrote: post #50

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Depends on how you end that sentence. If you end it with "and make a good easy to use technical solution instead" then you found my stance. If you end it with "and just...made parents responsible for their kids?" like GP then no that's not my stance at all.

> If you end it with "and make a good easy to use technical solution instead" then you found my stance. That assumes a good easy to use technical solution is possible . What if classifying user-generated content as safe for kids is enormously subjective, and the labor required to accurately classify it even given a hypothetical objective standard would cost more than users are willing to pay to have it done?

The issue at hand of figuring out ages would not take much labor no matter how you did it.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

croes wrote: post #64
Dylan16807 wrote: post #50

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Depends on how you end that sentence. If you end it with "and make a good easy to use technical solution instead" then you found my stance. If you end it with "and just...made parents responsible for their kids?" like GP then no that's not my stance at all.

So you could say the same for original echnical solution. > make a good easy to use technical solution instead

> So you could say the same for original echnical solution.

...yes, that was my point. My whole argument was that it wasn't a tradeoff between "unworkable technical solution" and "make parents spend time they don't have".

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

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Post by noosphr »

mothballed wrote: post #141
noosphr wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 s…

Bloomers bought their houses at 20 and had families by 22. Things change and for the last 50 years they haven't changed for the better.
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