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Something like that parody of printed manual check copy protection on the original Larry game might actually work? Years later I had a huge "oh, so that's the a
by usrusr 3y ago
Something like that parody of printed manual check copy protection on the original Larry game might actually work? Years later I had a huge "oh, so that's the answer!" moment when I finally discovered the meaning of the words agent orange.
Jokes aside, what would be the failure mode if some metadata about audience minimum age was given legal blessing? Regular browsers would simply ignore it, browsers with enabled parental controls would reject the page or site. Vendors of parental controls could focus their efforts on suppressing those sites that lie and the numerous proxy services that would inevitably pop up (but that's a problem they already have I assume). What am I missing?
- alright2565 3y ago> if some metadata about audience minimum age was given legal blessing? There's no legal blessing for this, but there's already an industry standard (in the vein of the ESRB ratings): https://www.rtalabel.org/index.html?content=howto https://www.rtalabel.org/index.html?content=howto Most porn sites have already voluntarily applied this label. > What am I missing? My best explanation is that moral panic always plays well to voters.
- bee_rider 3y agoI disagree with the idea of censorship generally, but it would be extremely funny if this was implemented and we could all just start tagging all our (totally mundane) content as adult-only. Imagine, a whole parallel internet free of busybodies and their children.
- johannes1234321 3y ago> What am I missing? You are missing, that many people in that space don't want to solve that specific problem * Some companies and their lobbies want to sell their products for filtering or whatever * Some people want to get rid of all sinful porn * Some want to block a lot more content for more people and need infrastructure * Some want to have further control Etc. "protecting the children" is often a good way to denounce opponents
- joe_g_young 3y agoThe Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) gives parents control over what information websites can collect from their kids. [https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/privacy-security/childrens-privacy https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/privacy-security/child...]. It requires explicit consent from the parents by entering a credit card as a form of ID or a video chat where the web platform confirms the adult is the parent or guardian
- hulitu 3y agoThis didn't stopped Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Apple collecting data about the children, isn't it ?
- throw0101d 3y ago> Some companies and their lobbies want to sell their products for filtering or whatever It really shouldn't be needed: web pages are all about tags with data and metadata. It shouldn't be hard to add metadata about content type. I never quite understood why labeling initiatives never gained traction: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_Selection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_... * https://www.w3.org/PICS/ https://www.w3.org/PICS/ * https://www.w3.org/2007/powder/ https://www.w3.org/2007/powder/ Throw some <meta> tags in and browsers can parse: then have a password-protected "filter controls" area in settings (and perhaps a GPO for corporate environments).
- johannes1234321 3y agoIn theory that is right, but if non-technical lawmakers are being told by vendors how complex and expensive products ease that and allow monitoring it's convincing for many.