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I'm not sure why we don't just make a law that parents must set parental controls on their kids' devices. We do this for most other things.
We should then make laws that parents must tell their kids to clean their room. Next we can make laws that parents must tell their children to eat their veggies. What about chore laws? Teeth brushing laws? Stop arguing with your sister laws! More laws!
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What is the punishment you want to give to parents who don't? That's the implication of making a law.
They get blacklisted from being able to have internet
It doesn't matter that you could do those things before the internet the normal and often only or only practical flow involves the net.
Counter offer we keep letting people manage their own kids' shit and they can control access to the degree they deem appropriate
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I'm not sure why we don't just make a law that parents must set parental controls on their kids' devices. We do this for most other things.
We should then make laws that parents must tell their kids to clean their room. Next we can make laws that parents must tell their children to eat their veggies. What about chore laws? Teeth brushing laws? Stop arguing with your sister laws! More laws!
In my opinion, access to internet should always be behind a device controlled by an adult. And it should be this adult's responsibility to set appropriate restrictions for minors.
You want parents to parent? God speed and good luck
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I'm not sure why we don't just make a law that parents must set parental controls on their kids' devices. We do this for most other things.
What is the punishment you want to give to parents who don't? That's the implication of making a law.
I'm never verifying my ID to access anything on the internet. I'll just stop using it.
ETA: (accidental submit; sorry) I'm in the same boat! Not entering my ID information into any website, much less ones they've got on the list. And so they've successfully boxed us in. At least for me, I intend to raise hell about it aside from just not sharing PIA, but I don't have any delusions of it's effect.
I don’t like this article. Irrelevant technical nuance is comingled with a philosophical opposition. The technical issues are all solvable. The free speech argument is foolish too: if limiting who can jerk off to pornography is an issue of free speech, surely so is limiting who can enter a bar and converse with the patrons. Opposition to ID checks because you believe the internet should be open and free is reasonable…
In my opinion, access to internet should always be behind a device controlled by an adult. And it should be this adult's responsibility to set appropriate restrictions for minors.
Agreed. My kids are young right now, but I'm wondering if we can just have a shared family room computer like in the 90s. (school-based laptops might thwart this, but maybe by the time they're school-aged people will realize that constantly putting kids in front a screen is a bad thing to do?)
Cryptographically there are techniques that let you prove you're one of the several hundred million adults in the US that don't reveal anything about which adult you are. It's much less complicated than bitcoin. I'm bringing this up because it's the perfect litmus test to show whether you really care about age verification, or if you want personal trackability for all internet behavior. I'd be okay with this for cert…
As a not super tech savvy parent I find it impossible to keep my son off screens. He always finds a workaround. So I'm a fan of age verification especially after reading The Anxious Generation, despite all the hate it gets from hacker news.
Cryptographically there are techniques that let you prove you're one of the several hundred million adults in the US that don't reveal anything about which adult you are. It's much less complicated than bitcoin. I'm bringing this up because it's the perfect litmus test to show whether you really care about age verification, or if you want personal trackability for all internet behavior. I'd be okay with this for cert…