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rpdillontoday at 2:34 PM1 replyview on HN

This is my take, but I am a bit frustrated by OS manufacturers. The obvious move is have a screen after factory reset the puts the device in kid mode permanently. It then will send a "I'm underage" flag to sites, and sites return no content (or safe content) when they see that header. This is a system that makes it easier for parents to do their parenting job. All the pieces of this system already exist, but the UX for managing a device during setup to be a "kids device" isn't there.

This system is good for a bunch of reasons:

* It gives parents control such that they can tailor the experience to their kids. This is a problem with current proposals.

* It doesn't bring identity into the mix at all, completely defusing the risk of mass surveillance.

* It's easy to verify if adult sites are complying: hit them with a curl request containing the header, check the response. This is much easier that verifying that Discord is checking user ages properly using their face-scanning technology.


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psd1today at 5:29 PM

That's how i was leaning, because i cynically assumed a maximally-fuckwitted decree.

However. The world is as it is, not as we wish it was. My mother can't click "update and restart"; pathological technophobia.

Should it be parental responsibility? Sure, why not. Will it that be effective? No. At scale, people are incompetent.