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KaiserProtoday at 4:00 PM1 replyview on HN

> you end up needing to ID your customers.

You've needed to do that for at least ten years. Mobile internet either requires a contract, or an ID check before you get a sim (pay and go)

Anyone providing internets is liable for what the users are doing. The way you got out of that is responding to legal requests. (originally mostly copyright)

This is the frustrating thing, we have effective and relatively uncontroversial age gated network (mobile data) already. and it worked.

but now they've done and fucked it up with OSA.


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als0today at 4:22 PM

I don’t think that would have worked. Parents buy phones for their kids since the kids can’t buy them. What would the choices be? Give them a phone or not give them a phone. I don’t think society is ready for that kind of choice anymore.

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