• wheresmypillow@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I think a lot of these states are going about this wrong. We should be helping parents restrict access for their children rather than trying to verify identities of adults who likely want to remain anonymous.

      • EighthLayer@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It’s the same rhetoric that the UK government are using to get a backdoor on messaging apps with E2EE.

          • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
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            1 year ago

            They’ve been trying for years and never get anywhere.

            They face an issue that introducing age verification requires an ID system and whilst age verification polls well (as did earlier silly ideas like a watershed for the internet . Unfortunately, timezones exist…) ID verification polls extremely badly

            So I suspect trying and failing is their holding position where they satisfy both.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, anytime you see somebody making the “think of the children!” argument, look at what the possible end goal could be with that removed. Protecting kids is a favorite smokescreen because kids can’t speak up for themselves in these cases.

    • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldOP
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      Yeah I think that’s the proper route. Parents who want to restrict what their children see need to take responsibility for doing so and not try to make the government do it for them at the expense of everyone else’s privacy.

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      I’m of the opinion that protecting children has little to do with the actual intended purpose of laws such as these.

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      Make a kid safe tld that requires whatever government certification. Done. Now parents, if they choose, can filter all but the kidsafe tld. Trying to instead blacklist is never going to work.

      Whether companies choose to certify and publish there is something those who want this type of thing should provide incentives for.