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@fossilesque@mander.xyz on mander.xyz Open parent
On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states
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@savvywolf@pawb.social on pawb.social Open parent
This is perhaps a controversial statement from someone who is fed up with all this age verification stuff, but having the user age be set on account creation (without providing ID or anything dumb like that) doesn’t seem that bad. It just feels like a way to standardise parental controls. Instead of having to roll their own age verification stuff, software like Discord can rely on the UserAccountStorage value. If it were possible to plug into a browser in a standard, privacy conscious way, it also reduces the need for third party parental control browser extensions, which I imagine can be a bit sketchy. OSes collect and expose language and locale information anyway. What harm is age bands in addition to that?
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@Ardyvee@europe.pub · Mar 04

Standardized parental controls would be great, actually. But it should be proper parental controls, not whatever this is. Because at the end of the day, the parent* should be involved in what their child is up to, and allow (or not) based on what the child needs and/or wants, instead of whatever we are doing now.

Or, to put it another way, if your teen has read Games of Thrones (the physical books), I don’t see much of a point in forbidding them from going to the wiki of it, and I’d be hard pressed to justify stopping them from talking about it online with other people who have read the books. The tools should allow for this kind of nuance, because actual people are going to use it and these kind of situations happen all the time.

  • some parents are awful and would abuse this, see LGBT+ related things, but that’s a social issue, not a technological issue.
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