Post #1528778

2026-04-16 09:51 UTC

Well, kinda. You can have access tiers. For instance no access for age18. Needless to say, I think this is (in most circumstances) the wrong approach. We are talking about products that are often deliberately harmful and hostile to all users, and then we expect to have a child-safe version of these. Shouldn't we try to get an adult safe version too? It would be way easier to protect children then.

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@MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-16 10:26

For sure, but in all those access tiers, they would presumably need to verify MY age as well to be sure of which tier I fit into, right? The only reason I can see that I wouldn't need to use this app is if I'm on a site that isn't age gated, I think. Edit: sorry, I didn't even respond to your second point. I think you're exactly right about the issue being with them being harmful to begin with. Fixing those issues should absolutely be the first priority. And I wanna be clear, the idea of a zero proof system is the best I've heard of so far in all of these concepts. At least with that there aren't some insane security issues being overlooked. I'm just wary of the surveillance state future everyone seems to be pushing for.

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@themurphy@lemmy.ml 2026-04-16 11:46

Well, it depends what you mean about "adult safe". There are still regulations to make sites free of harmful content. Problem is that is not enforced enough. But do you want governments to decide what's "adult safe"? It seems that's an even worse approach with far more overreach than already proposed. Adult safe should mean porn ban or explicit content, if you want to make unified rules for all ages. We should also take into account that there factually is a difference between kid brains and adults. This is not coming from nothing, even though the proposed solution ends up being a privacy nightmare.

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