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When you want to buy alcohol, you show a cashier your ID, you pay and you leave. There is not a digital record of your ID being used to purchase alcohol at that
by anonym29 3y ago
When you want to buy alcohol, you show a cashier your ID, you pay and you leave. There is not a digital record of your ID being used to purchase alcohol at that exact location at that exact time.
The problem isn't with the idea of keeping kids off social media, it's with the infringement of privacy that necessarily comes with one of the only ways society has figured out to effectively enforce that policy.
"We shouldn't prevent children from working in factories because that might be a privacy violation!" is an emotionally-charged straw-man of my argument. Please calm down and argue against the argument I'm actually making, not the much weaker argument that you wish I was making.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago> There is not a digital record of your ID being used to purchase alcohol at that exact location at that exact time. Are you sure about that? Even so, there's no reason age verification online couldn't work similarly.
- anonym29 3y ago>> There is not a digital record of your ID being used to purchase alcohol at that exact location at that exact time. >Are you sure about that? Yes. I am certain that the middle aged woman who half-glanced at my driver's license for 2 seconds 3 months ago did not memorize my driver's license number and enter it into the computerized list of all driver's license numbers displayed by customers who paid in cash and left on a bicycle without any kind of identifying plates, before proceeding to remember me as a customer and not ask for the ID anymore. I'm not asserting there's no record of any kind of me being there - the cashier can attest to as much. What I'm so confident of is that I can do this and know with 100% certainty that my ID (ssn, drivers license number) did not get stored as a digital record, such as the database entry correlating to that purchase on that day at that time in that store. The reason this cannot work similarly online is that the user has no way of knowing with certainty that their identifying information (IP address, facial scan data, photo of driver's license) is not being stored, whereas I do know with absolute certainty that my identifying information is not being stored for the purchases I do not want being tied to me in a database.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoI've had the cashier scan my license for verification.
- anonym29 3y agoI know which stores that happens at and which it doesn't happen at, still making it my choice whether or not I consent to my ID being in that DB.