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> Totally, that's why I figured it's easier to just ban it for under 18s, then leave it alone for over 18s. There is no such thing as "leave it alone for over
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
> Totally, that's why I figured it's easier to just ban it for under 18s, then leave it alone for over 18s.
There is no such thing as "leave it alone for over 18s".
If you institute strict age requirements, those have to be enforced for every user account. So yes, that means every site you use would require you to go through something like a KYC process.
Privacy on the internet would be gone. You can't enforce age restrictions if you allow users to remain private.
- dotandgtfo 4y agoNot sure how viable this is in the US due to reasons but a centralized auth service could in theory not provide any PII back to the service requesting an age verification, and the auth provider wouldn't necessarily have to be get data back from the service except for the first time a user registers an account.
- inkblotuniverse 4y ago[Muffled screaming]
- dotandgtfo 4y agoMuch of the EU uses centralized auth services for critical services like banking, taxes, applying for schools, applying for loans. It's pretty great honestly. There are also APIs for integrating into these where the user chooses what pii they want to share with the service. I know it's a controversial topic but the argument that age verification and auth services must remove privacy and inevitably leads to mass surveillance is a false narrative which I find kind of funny as if anybody should know these technical realities it's users on hn.