alt Hacker NewsBecause banning smartphones in schools doesn’t affect adults not in those schools, whereas age verification does?
How you implement these protections matter.
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master-lincoln • yesterday at 9:26 AM
Age verification does not affect adults. But often when they say age verification they want to make you give out more data than "i am over 18"
The rhetoric I often see online is forcing children to identify themselves which, obviously leads to adults being required to identify themselves.
How do adults declare themselves as adults without teenagers claiming to be adults also?
It’s all complicated, but I am exhausted from reading doom articles of how the UK wants adults to not exist online while trying to force children offline for their own existence and long term health..
It’s worth me noting that I’m extremely liberal, but I’ve admittedly been failing to see how we keep children safe online without forcing identity of adulthood. We do not allow teens to buy cigarettes or vapes based on vibes either, right?
(please correct or roast me, I really am struggling with this and am tired of reading refutes that are not productive)