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As a parent, I strongly disagree with the priorities of the people setting the policies for the age gates. For instance, roblox is full of pedophiles. Minecra
by hedora 3mo ago
As a parent, I strongly disagree with the priorities of the people setting the policies for the age gates.
For instance, roblox is full of pedophiles. Minecraft displays pro-surveillance propaganda to my kid every time they run a game that does not let M$ read their messages.
Even “educational” sites like blooket do not bother to check their content for kid safety or accuracy.
I’d rather police this stuff myself, so I do.
Every implementation of age verification I have seen is counterproductive, and designed to take control away from parents in order to help companies monetize access to children.
The people creating these systems aren’t dumb. They work as designed, which means they are actively harmful to kids and society at large.
- stubish 3mo agoThis is why age verification cannot be implemented by the vested interests. Rollout in Australia involved making the laws, but leaving the implementation up to the vested interests, and is a mess because of it. A privacy nightmare uploading government documentation to strangers, and companies just just punting responsibility to a designated fall guy ('3rd party trusted verification service'). And most of them don't want to implement things this way, because they don't want to be the next company taking a hit in the stock market because of a public data breach, but have no choice. When governments and societies want age verification, they need to actually take responsibility for it. Which seems to be what the EU is trying to do.