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Amid wave of kids' online safety laws, age-checking tech comes of age
- like_any_other 8mo ago> For years, tech companies successfully resisted pressure from child safety advocates to do more to keep kids off their services And only tech companies opposed this privacy-destroying legislation, as the Reuters article quotes several industry experts of the age-assurance industry, and not a single free speech, freedom, or anonymity activist. Journalism strikes again. Sadly this is the norm for articles on this topic.
- tim-tday 8mo agoThey’re really not very mature yet. Let’s keep them from interacting with the real world for the next 18yrs mkay? You can’t expect an age verification technology to function properly right away can you? Give em some time to mature. I’m sure it’ll be alright in a decade or two.