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Mistletoetoday at 12:26 AM6 repliesview on HN

Yes but why do you need to verify your age to use computer hardware?


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dmixtoday at 12:38 AM

Because people are naive enough to think the huge privacy compromise will be worth the cost to society in order to protect kids.

The better question is why in 5yrs we will have to use ID to buy a product on some random ecommerce site or to play a video game or use Uber or post a comment on Reddit. It will be because people pushed for this for kids on social media and opened the door for the rest of the internet companies to demand it and therefore the government.

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zamadatixtoday at 12:29 AM

They can't stand the idea you'd use it without a social media account. It's Facebook after all.

slowintoday at 12:30 AM

You shouldn't have to do this and I won't. I'll vote with my dollars and never buy another device from them. It's too bad because I genuinely liked it as well, but it's not worth the invasion of privacy and normalizing sending this type of information to any consumer company.

tyraboundtoday at 1:10 AM

Think of the children … or are your a chomo? Now hand over your papers for access to information and communications more that all the books have been fed into the AI shredder and paper and writing instruments were done away with to save the planet.

Daz912today at 2:25 AM

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