parents can be morons so don’t give them that excuse.
I promise you that they will still find a way to fuck it up. Badly.
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I kinda agree, but it doesn’t need to be verification. Just a standardised child account set for the OS that devices come with. Make it really fucking obvious when setting up a device too, parents can be morons so don’t give them that excuse.
Make it clear that the parents are responsible.
Deyis@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Sure will. But it’s about setting expectations. Make sure society views the parents as responsible too because they clearly gave the kid unfiltered internet access.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
This is what California just passed into law, I think they’re thinking the same thing and trying to force the hand a bit before I’d verification becomes the only option.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Its the best option I can think of that doesn’t infringe on privacy in any way while also working. The parents are responsible and technical changes that help make that more obvious to society along with making it easier for parents that can’t be bothered to look after their children seems like the best compromise to reduce the chance of the otherwise inevitable loss of privacy that we are going to face. Or in some cases, already have.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
Exactly, it makes sense up and down the stack. Parent says junior is under 18 to the os. Os passes it into the browser, browser passes it along to sites, or prevents displaying them. There would of course be ways around it, but it solves 95% of the cases immediately, and lets us adults continue being adults.
bitwise@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Any sort of hardware attestation that non-trivially identifies a person to verify their age is going to be used to track and exploit people.
Anything less than that isn’t going to be effective for the supposed purpose.
The moment we need photo ID or government issued keys to access computer systems, things will get a lot more ugly real fast.