Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all?

Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    We already have a means to protect children online. It’s called having the adults who are responsible for them pay attention to what they’re doing on the Internet and restricting their access via parental controls. No reason to drag the rest of us into that.