alt Hacker NewsKids having $20-30 means you're fine with them being unsupervised? Computers and smartphones are incredibly cheap.
In person, we expect stores won't sell cigarettes to kids. We should simply expect companies won't provide age restricted services to kids. The liability and requirements should be on those companies.
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If they're able to get a burner phone unsupervised then I think they could also pay an adult to do the face scan for them or borrow your ID from your purse to authenticate an account. What level of security would you need to totally prevent that kind of thing? Unless it checks your age every time you log in with biometrics I don't see it.
(Of course adding any level of friction will deter some kids, but needing to get a whole new device other than the one their parents gave them is already a lot of friction, isn't it?)
You are gliding past the crucial difference: detecting that someone is a minor in person is magnitudes easier than doing so online.
> In person, we expect stores won't sell cigarettes to kids. We should simply expect companies won't provide age restricted services to kids.
Stores won’t sell cigarettes to kids because doing that will probably get you arrested and shut down pretty quickly.