alt Hacker NewsIf indeed the push for age verification is being done under false pretenses as you suggest, then one should propose solutions that accomplish the stated goals while preserving privacy. Either the solutions will be accepted, or the people advancing false pretenses will be forced to come up with new false pretenses, which will weaken their arguments. Either way is a win.
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> then one should propose solutions that accomplish the stated goals while preserving privacy
Solution: sites and apps optionally provide metadata suggesting their content/age-appropriateness, parents locally configure software to look at that metadata (including what to do with things that don't have metadata), or they don't, depending on their parenting style and the maturity of their child. Done. No laws or identification or invasive measures required.
It's been done. Here are a couple of examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Content_Rating_Associ...
https://www.rtalabel.org/page.php?content=howtofaq
Use of those kinds of headers needs to be voluntary for websites, which means that censorware has to block any site that doesn't return the header, not just those sites where the value of that header indicates adult content. That will encourage websites to support the header or risk being auto-blocked by any censorware in use, but that's a problem for the RTA header since it only indicates adult content.