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demarqyesterday at 1:34 AM2 repliesview on HN

If all the kids start pretending to be grownups, they end up escaping all the protections put in place to protect kids in the first place.

In football we call this an own goal


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squigzyesterday at 5:11 PM

I'm fairly confident that's not how it works, but am happy to be proven wrong?

add-sub-mul-divyesterday at 2:53 AM

Not really, it gives them justification to more thoroughly remove privacy and anonymity in order to make sure the age and identity of the user are more confidently known.