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We age gate the movie theater, so why is age gating a website or app any worse?
by SirMaster 7mo ago
We age gate the movie theater, so why is age gating a website or app any worse?
- nickburns 7mo agoHave you given any movie theaters a permanent and persistent copy of your ID lately? Your phone number? Make them a list of anything and everything you've read about lately?
- ezfe 7mo ago???
- SirMaster 7mo agoWhat is the fight over? It semes like some people are fighting over age restriction at all, and others are fighting over the specific exchange of age proof mechanisms.
- nickburns 7mo agoCan we have the former without the latter? My own fight is squarely with the latter. I think I'm beginning to realize, however, that the onus should be on both sides of the issue to find a reasonable common ground.
- mperham 7mo agoWhat age is appropriate for the Safari app? What age is appropriate for PlannedParenthood.com? Reddit.com? A movie is a distinct piece of content. A website and an app can be a container for lots of different content.
- jayers 7mo agoThis isn't even a hard question. The movie theater is open but movies that are rated R are not. In this case, Reddit.com is a movie theater, subreddits are movies. The website might be open, but not every subreddit is. This is in fact how Reddit already operates, age verification is just a joke right now.
- SirMaster 7mo agoNobody is trying to age restrict the safari app (like a movie theater), but I don't see why websites or parts of websites can't be restricted like individual movies are as they are given a rating by an authority. But other apps entirely like dating apps? or only fans? can probably be entirely restricted to some age.
- MeetingsBrowser 7mo agoI've never needed to give any documentation to buy a movie ticket.