How does that help Facebook? They already have plenty of signals to guess their users' age, what would they do with an other one? They are not going to ban children anyway.

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yborg 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It helps them by making it somebody else's responsibility to get it right and thus shields them from liability.

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Frieren an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The OS should start labeling everybody as a child by default. Forbid Facebook to show ads and any harming content by default. The OS has little less to lose with this approach than FB.

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progval 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So it lets them know for sure who is a child. What liability does that shield them from, and how?

	▲	ben_w 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		FB etc. may argue "device says this user is an adult", even though device may say that only because the parents don't set up separate user accounts e.g. shared family iPad, or because the kids being more tech savvy in the first place like we all were when I myself was a kid.