alt Hacker NewsI have been saying this all along. You can't prevent kids from getting around restrictions. All you can do is try to help them understand what they find on the other side and what some options are. Age-gating is just a way to push forward a surveillance agenda. The fact thats happening everywhere all at once proves my point.
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stephbook • today at 6:42 AM
What you're saying is we should allow kids to buy tobacco, to gamble, to purchase Meth and Heroine because Kids get around restrictions anyway
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bruceb • today at 6:41 AM
You can. Most children are not going to end up on HN when they are older. The stories you read here about hacking system at 11 are outliers.
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dylan604 • today at 6:09 AM
>You can prevent kids from getting around restrictions
I'm guessing you meant can't
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It's pushed both by those with surveillance agendas and AI companies like Anthropic, who donated millions to PACs and politicians that are pushing online age verification and surveillance laws[1].
The goal for the AI side is that they get to be censors and gatekeepers of all user-generated content on the internet, their models will rank/grade/censor content for age-appropriateness and they will have the pleasure of being paid to train on all new content uploaded to the internet in real-time, in perpetuity.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162956