alt Hacker NewsStronger: Once you accept their right to ask, then you open the door to their right to a truthful answer, and thus to a verified answer.
Stronger: Once you accept their right to ask, then you open the door to their right to a truthful answer, and thus to a verified answer.
Hasn’t the right to ask existed since the invention of consent laws?
The state being able demand a persons age, and gate their behaviour based on that, has existed for hundreds of years so far. During that entire time the requirement to be truthful has also existed otherwise the laws would be meaningless.
All that’s changing now, is figuring out how that extends into the digital realm. I personally find the argument that the digital realm is somehow special compared to the physical realm, and thus certain laws simply shouldn’t apply when “done on a computer”, difficult to reconcile.