Maybe age verification will encourage kids to be more social in person, because they’ll need to have at least two inside the trenchcoat.
Kids also not allowed outside..
How so? You never see kids outdoors?
Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's basically the leading reason why quantum computing is being funded. What? Can you provide any evidence for this claim?
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.
> Why do you think Google, the world's largest ad company, is paying money out of its ears to research those topics?
The numerous commercially viable applications of quantum computing. No conspiracy theory needed, you nutjob
Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Alright then.
Go ahead use metas verifier, give your biometrics to openai, type all your personal and financial information into copilot for advice, email your boss tell him anthropics boris was right you are now redundant, click on all of the ads you see, only engage with your peers on Facebook to let the algorithm decide how that goes, only drive in roads with flock cameras to stay safe, turn off your ad blocker, don't use vpns, etc. it's your life.
Or ... https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillanc...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/02/27/us-go...
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-surveillance-phone-tracking-...
Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache
#84If you’re in Canada please write your MP about bill S-209, which brings this nonsense here.
As someone on a tech forum, we’re the only people who can really articulate the issues with the age verification approach.
It’s really the worst solution to these problems with awful tradeoffs.
Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Why do you think Google, the world's largest ad company, is paying money out of its ears to research those topics? The numerous commercially viable applications of quantum computing. No conspiracy theory needed, you nutjob
First time I have been called a nut job. Nice
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Already a thing for a lot of services (like financial), but still. There's better ways that don't involve sending your ID or facial scans to a first or third party.
Yeah, I set up a trading212 account lately and they wanted ID scan + live video. I mind that a bit less for finance: identity theft is real, and there are significant disadvantages to me if someone can set up a bank account in my name without getting ID checked. I'm not doing it for bloody discord or bsky DMs.
I'm paying Fidelity's fees instead of completing the verification process with Trading 212.
Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache
#87Of 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…
There is one thing I do not remember, and that is if Leisure Suit Larry was advertised toward children and how much of Leisure Suit Larry revenue sales came from 0–12 years old, adolescent of 13–17 years old, and then adult customers.
It could be that that Leisure Suit Larry age verification was actually fairly good, if one put it in relation towards how much of their customer base and revenue came from selling the game to young children.
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And that’s how the laws designed to protect children ended up producing the worlds largest collection of photos of naked children.
Mostly naked grownups, with a few fairly tall children who are naked, except for the fake pubic hair.
Don't worry, most "protect the children" regulation casts a web so wide it includes plenty of pubic hair and sexually active teens
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#89I don't want to give my ID to every service I interact online. But I also don't think it's reasonable to ask of parents to ensure their children aren't accessing age restricted content online. What about liquor shops or strip clubs? They ask for ID, which makes sense; we're not expecting parents to make sure their children don't go into these places. But the liquor shop takes a look at the ID and then doesn't collect…
People like to make fun of and poke holes in the EU's planned implementation of this, but so far they seem to be the only ones trying to implement this in a way that doesn't give my name to every online service or give some identity provider full knowledge which services I sign up to
The California bill about setting an age in the OS was another interesting idea. Have the parents police a single setting on the device, then websites and apps can query that setting. Of course that's little more than the parental controls we always had, but apparently everyone forgot about those
Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache
#90The 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