Posted by speckx 17 hours ago
I'm punching myself in the balls one way or another.
1 - 1 - 1970 is always mine - Unix zero
If none, you were born on March 5, 1957.
(Note on evaluating this: there are some circumstances where the penalty changes later. I know one person who's Global Access paperwork was delayed because they lied to their airline's frequent flyer program about their age. But that was the whole consequence: a need to update their data with the airline).
Pretty much sums up all modern discourse in banning social media and doing age checks. When I was growing up it was satanic symbols in the music I listened to.
I guess - wtf is wrong with adults? Why do they feel compelled to control the younger generation?
Mental health issues in the young have gone through the roof since 2010. There is definitely a problem, whether this solves it is another matter.
(In the US, the latter occurs more often than you may expect.)
I'm in the UK, I'm normally connected through a VPN these days.
The problem is that the people who want age verification don’t really care about the technical details of how it’s implemented and the people who oppose age verification just want unfettered online pornography out of principle, so no one is actually thinking about how to implement age verification in a way that protects privacy.
Likewise, incentives aren't there for liquor stores. They make money by allowing fake ids to work.