Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all?

Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.

  • Zexks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Its too complex of a topic for one offs when people use so much bad faith as they do around here. The fact that i got 12 downvotes and 2 responses shows as much