Comment on Social media lobby group sues US State for protecting children from Meta, TikTok and Snapchat
GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Protecting children would mean knowing which users are children, which would mean knowing the actual legal identity of every user of the platform. It’s never going to happen.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 months ago
You don’t think that the data the companies collect and analyse from their users don’t already give them a decent idea? How do you think targeted advertising works?
i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 5 months ago
That data is a very good guess, but not appropriate for legal application.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah for that you’d need some kind of datepicker field marked “birthday”.
lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Which then wouldn’t be a legally full verification of your age, thus the legislation would probably require some other means. We currently have a similar discussion in the EU regarding porn sites. Verification methods could be showing your id card and your face to a webcam, or showing up at a verification office in person (at least in germany we have this with our national postal service). Of course the porn sites don’t want to implement this. And I cannot really blame them. Nobody would give a random porn site their real identity and it would still be very easy to get porn without verification.
Age verification on social media is very similar.