30 years of internet were possible with relative freedom, without spying and surveillance. All of the sudden it's not possible.

Governments recycle "Think of the children" mantra and they are again after terrorists and bad guys.

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xinayder 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Mandatory age check is not going to reduce the number of criminals online. Period.

We should focus on teaching parents how to educate their children properly, and teach children how to safely browse the internet and how to avoid common scams and pitfalls.

I played Roblox when I was a teenager and all the time my aunt told me to be careful of who I talked to online, as they could be a pedo. Even though there wasn't a constant monitoring from my parents or family, her words were repeated many times that I actually thought 5 times before sharing any kind of personal information online, back then.

	▲	iso1631 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Helping parents would be useful rather than telling them to "just do it". The pain in trying to set up fortnite and minecraft online as parents is unsummounted, involving creating half a dozen accounts with different companies just to get some form of control. Far easier to just give them an adult account. The process to create a child account should be seamless and no harder than creating an adult account.

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Attrecomet 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Governments recycle "Think of the children" mantra and they are again after terrorists and bad guys.

nope, they are going after dissenters, not bad guys. It's how it always ends up.