alt Hacker News> It may often times be trickier than that - content often mixed of course.
So put the content tag at the granularity of the content.
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valleyer • yesterday at 8:22 AM
Honestly, <span content-filter-level="adult">fuck</span> that.
> It may often times be trickier than that - content often mixed of course.
So put the content tag at the granularity of the content.
Honestly, <span content-filter-level="adult">fuck</span> that.
Awesome. Now you have a system where every blog entry, every Facebook post needs a lawyer consultation.
Around 20 years ago, Germany actually made a law that would have enforced such a system. I still have a chart in my blog that explained it, https://www.onli-blogging.de/1026/JMStV-kurz-erklaert.html. Content for people over 16 would have to be marked accordingly or be put offline before 22:00, plus, if your site has a commercial character - which according to german courts is every single one in existence - you would need to hire a someone responsible for protecting teenagers and children (Jugenschutzbeauftragten).
Result: It was seen as a big censor machine and I saw many sites and blogs shut down. You maybe can make that law partly responsible for how far behind german internet enterprises still are. Only a particular kind of bureaucrat wants to make business in an environment that makes laws such as this.
Later the law wasn't actually followed. Only state media still has a system that blocks films for adults (=basically every action movie) from being accessed without age verification if not past 22:00.