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Putting "teens" in the title is misleading. The ban is for ages 15 and below.
by paxys 11mo ago
Putting "teens" in the title is misleading. The ban is for ages 15 and below.
- jfindper 11mo agoThirteen, fourteen, fifteen. It's half of the "teens" someone experiences before hitting the age of majority. I think it's fine to say "teen" in the title.
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- Aachen 11mo agoTIL English teenager isn't necessarily the translation of Dutch tiener. Wikipedia at least says 10–19 for us and 13–19 for English. In German the word teenager is also used and the page gives both definitions on the same page without realising it's self-contradictory Idk that anyone takes this so literally (as that you're only a teenager if your cardinal age ends in the literal word teen and so twelve is definitely not a teenager), I've always understood it as "in their tens" but that may be my origin
- jfindper 11mo agoWhere I am, "teens" is 13-19 because they are all suffixed with "teen". Ten, eleven, and twelve are generally called "pre-teens", if anything.
- Aachen 11mo agoNot very useful without saying where that would be :P
- jfindper 11mo agoWell, it's useful for explaining my first comment, at least. But North America, for the curious.
- hearsathought 11mo ago> But North America, for the curious. Just say canada. I don't understand why canadians always do this.
- jfindper 11mo agoI'm in Michigan. Is that Canadian now? Will have to update my passport asap.
- hearsathought 11mo agoThen say michigan or america. You may be "in michigan" but are you "from michigan". Why would you say north america unless you have ties to canada.
- jfindper 11mo ago>You may be "in michigan" but are you "from michigan". I have literally 0 reason to answer this, it has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation, but to placate whatever weird obsession you have, yes. I was born in Michigan. >Why would you say north america unless you have ties to canada. Why do you care? Is North America offensive now or something? I said "North America" because, for the purposes of this specific conversation, it doesn't matter at all. Except to you, apparently. For some unknown reason. I try not to be super US-centric on international forums. First time someone's ever started questioning me about it, though.
- hearsathought 11mo ago> Is North America offensive now or something? North america encompasses the US, Canada AND MEXICO. Not sure what the age range for "teen" is in canada. If you are not canadian, why are you speaking for canadians. Don't think they even use "teen" in mexico as they speak spanish in mexico. > I try not to be super US-centric on international forums. HN is an american forum. You can be US-centric if you want. I give you permission.
- benatkin 11mo agoIt technically means that, but teen is often synonymous with young adult which is 13-18. The newly an adult period is a year, not two years. 19 year olds are considered to be too old as a default in many teen spaces. https://www.ala.org/yalsa/guidelines/whitepapers/teenspaces https://www.ala.org/yalsa/guidelines/whitepapers/teenspaces
- amatecha 11mo agoThe ban is also for anyone who refuses to submit their private data (face scan or government ID) to an unrelated 3rd party company which will invariably store that data with insufficient security.
- decimalenough 11mo agoThe ban does not specify how companies are supposed to do it. Eg Snapchat is not requiring ID (which the average Australian 15yo wouldn't have anyway), they're trying to determine age with the user's camera, and this is trivially spoofed using video played back on another device.
- stOneskull 11mo agoi think eventually they'll say 'these methods are not working' and enforce digital id