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> IMO social media should age check by law. They do[1]. Most social media sites in the US don't allow children under 13 to use their sites, as a matter of poli
by woodruffw 3y ago
> IMO social media should age check by law.
They do[1]. Most social media sites in the US don't allow children under 13 to use their sites, as a matter of policy. There have been proposals to expand COPPA to other forms of tracking and to children under 16.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prot...
- brandon272 3y agoTo be clear, “age checking” involves nothing more than having the user enter their birthdate via a datepicker. Not exactly the same kind of verification used for things like cigarettes or alcohol.
- woodruffw 3y agoRight. The alternative would be mandatory identification to websites, which would be a gross violation of user privacy, and impossible under the US’s current ID schemes.
- izacus 3y agoYou can use parental tools to disable these apps. Demanding thar whole world uploads private IDs to sites to check age because you refuse to parent well is absurd.