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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…
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.
The vast majority of kids are stuck when you've blocked the first two returns for a google search for "Proxy"
HN is in a crazy bubble. The vast majority of kids live normal lives, and don't spend their time trying to get around filters and things because that's boring to them.
Most children don't have an ocean of free time. They are playing their video game or watching their shows or whatever.
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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.
The result will be age verification with a passport or ID "to protect the children". Probably this was the goal all along.
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That's one idea. I have a different one. What if we...now hear me out....what if we didn't try to shoehorn a stupid and unworkable technological solution into this problem space and just...made parents responsible for their kids?
Parents who work fulltime, some even more than one job?
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How so? You never see kids outdoors?
Most parents are too afraid of the State kidnappers (and the Karens who call them) for that.
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The EU age id app is this, with some extra privacy hurdles (the id is only on your phone not on the remote server).
And this will then be used by the Apple and Google to make "security" on the OS "stronger" so that "we can protect the children" better (i.e. lock down the OS even more and take control away from us consumers). In this new idiocracy, this this is how corporates and government work together to take away our rights ...
The result will be age verification with a passport or ID "to protect the children". Probably this was the goal all along.
Tier 1 networks legally not allowed to route packets that aren't digitally signed by a cryptographic ID linked to you