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> completely destroying internet anonymity. Stores that sell age restricted products already can also sell "adult passes". Each adult pass costs less than $5,
by willcipriano 3y ago
> completely destroying internet anonymity.
Stores that sell age restricted products already can also sell "adult passes".
Each adult pass costs less than $5, and contains a single use scratch off code that you can use to prove you are of age. When you want to sign up for social media or porn, you need a code. Mutiple companies can implement and sell them.
- KingMachiavelli 3y agoThere would be a huge black market of selling to the underage immediately defeating the purpose.
- willcipriano 3y agoChecking ID to prevent the sale of tobacco to children may not prevent them from ever smoking but is considered better than nothing. This product would be sold in exactly the same manner at the same locations. Prevents kids from stumbling onto it by accident at very least.
- oblio 3y agoThat would limit the total addressable market from 100% to, say, 1-5%. Statistically, legally, socially, that's not "defeating the purpose", that's "job done", instead. Most people here should be engineers or at least analytical. No solution is 100%.
- triceratops 3y agoMost minors don't smoke or drink, even though straw purchases of booze and cigs are a thing. Social media is even more amenable to this type of gatekeeping because if most of your social circle isn't on it, you have no reason to be there either.