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Yeah. Kids only put in their real age once. After they get burned they know they have to say they're over 12 or 18 or whatever the site is asking about for a
by donmcronald 4y ago
Yeah. Kids only put in their real age once. After they get burned they know they have to say they're over 12 or 18 or whatever the site is asking about for a threshold.
Worse than that, the proof of identity is making it impossible to use the safest option - anonymity. If a kid gets bullied or harassed or targeted by bad actors they can't simply delete their account and create a new one. These laws force them to have one or two super high value (to them) accounts that are difficult to abandon.
- rtkwe 4y agoI was always ~1 middle mouse spin years old on any age gates. For the anonymity problem there's nothing really requiring that accounts are 1-1 permanently linked with their identities much less publicly linked to them. Just that they're validated as being >=XX years old right?
- donmcronald 4y agoI don't think so. I'd be shocked if Facebook, etc. let you create more than one account with the same ID.