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ipaddrlast Wednesday at 5:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

These platforms are heavy censored with a direct line to governments. This will push kids to other platforms with less censorship. That's a major benefit.

As we go down this road platforms will need to be banned for everyone. For example VK wasn't on the list and they won't implement age checks. They and many other sites will need to be banned until you are left with a white list of acceptance sites. Add in age verification on those sites for everyone.

Kids will learn how to overcome the ban. VPNs will become the standard.


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onion2klast Wednesday at 5:51 PM

Kids will learn how to overcome the ban. VPNs will become the standard.

This gives governments an excuse to ban VPNs in the name of 'thinking of the children'. That might be the point though.

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subscribedlast Wednesday at 6:10 PM

They already started moving to different platforms. No VPNs needed. At some point they'll stray off the Internet (because gov.au of course barks at every platform except discord, mysteriously).