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oliwarnertoday at 1:57 PM1 replyview on HN

They could, yes. You can buy 5GB of service for £2.50 at many convenience stores. Paid cash.

This is such a weird angle. Like saying shops shouldn't age check for alcohol because the parents would know.

They are also friends with other children who have their own parents, devices and network access. Your child doesn't live in a bubble you have control over.

These are all the same fantasy arguments that completely ignore the pervasiveness of the internet and the tenacity of determined children. 15 years of waiting to see if social networks can fix this themselves has only shown us how much they want to exploit us all. They earned this.


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Citizen_Lametoday at 4:23 PM

Just parent and educate your children mate, it's simply your personal failure. Have you tried talking to them, you would be surprised, they are not dumb.

Besides this legislation won't solve the problem, it will simply postpone it, while at the same time it will require everyone to do identity verification to access anything. But it's disappointing to see these kind of comments here, as you are clearly individual with limited technical abilities.

Come next election, it will be surprised Pikachu face from many.