Posted by WaitWaitWha 5 hours ago
I really hope this will end the whole third party age verification farce.
age verification laws have little to do with protecting anyone, and social media companies are attempting to remove themselves from liability for their dangerous product by pushing for it
social media in its current unregulated state is harmful as has been demonstrated repeatedly with (suppressed) studies, and the push for age verification instead of regulation on the actual harmful content
age verification will always be a tool to censor whatever content certain interest groups want to censor and it is a wild violation of privacy as has been repeatedly demonstrated every time an identity verification firm gets hacked, they do not take this seriously at all, and all the while the actual harmful sites continue to do harm and have the ability to blame others for not 'protecting' people from the harm their product causes
it's a complete farce and has nothing to do with protecting anyone except tech companies peddling a harmful product
But to require OS to implement all of this goes way to far and together with the proposed verification mechanisms is a privacy nightmare.
Furthermore I think it's abhorrent that I have to compromise my privacy so the 'slot machines targetted at children' companies can limit their liability. I'd much rather those companies simply left my country outright.
someone will serve an innocuous page to adults, and some malicious honeypot trickery to children, all based on an http header.
"you've won five billion robux! click allow [to a webcam permission] to be able to receive them into your account!"
You... you think pedos can't identify children from their appearances alone? People really say the most random analogy for slightest chance to win online arguments...
Less bad is still bad.
Normalizing a gated, state controlled internet is bad.