What problem? I don't think internet websites and apps actually need to know the face, age, or name of their users if their users don't want to provide that information. With exceptions for things like gambling websites.

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infotainment 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Why should gambling be the exception? One could argue other app-based vices are just as bad, if not worse.

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meowface 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Crippling debt from unwise impulsive gambling by a teenager is probably worse than whatever occurs from a teenager scrolling Twitter all day.

The latter may not be great, but eating potato chips all day also probably isn't, and I don't think the government should outlaw minors eating potato chips. Plus it's variable: some get positive, educational, pro-social, productive outcomes from social media and some don't. Gambling is always bad in the limit.

A simple rule could probably be that if a website can make you lose over $200 of real money, it should probably require age verification. I don't see why other things should.

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swiftcoder 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> Crippling debt from unwise impulsive gambling by a teenager is probably worse than whatever occurs from a teenager scrolling Twitter all day.

The cynic in me says that's not why governments want identity confirmation for gambling websites. It's so you can't dodge the taxman

	▲	meowface 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's true. It's probably at least 50% the latter. And I don't really blame them.