| ▲ | reddalo 2 hours ago |
| I agree, age verification on the web should 100% banned. Parents should learn how to be parents; the government shouldn't force companies to do parenting instead. |
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| ▲ | eloisant an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Governement should force companies to give parental controls tools. Gaming companies like Nintendo and Steam do that, I can create a kid account with parental controls. Social media companies (e.g. Meta, Snap) are the first that should provide that but they don't. |
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| ▲ | gherkinnn 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Band and severely punish systematic violations of privacy. Regulate the poison first, not the access to it. All this age verification nonsense is an admission that some platforms knowingly harm their users. And instead of fixing the issue by cracking down on the proverbial crack, governments make everybody's life worse. I remain hopeful that one day, humans will regard the online advertising companies with the same scorn we do the tobacco industry and may they be ashamed and disgusted at our inaction. |
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| ▲ | otabdeveloper4 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| So you're implying alcohol and cigarettes should be sold to children? (Not to mention all the other consent age laws.) That said, VPN is a national security issue, children are only a pretext. |
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| ▲ | hnlmorg an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Children have always found ways to access age restricted consumables. Whether that was porno mags, alcohol or cigarettes. They’d just get an older sibling, or stranger to buy it. Or they’d have a fake ID. Or they’d just steal it from a family member. But you know which kids did this the least? It was the ones where their parents / guardians took their responsibilities as a guardian properly. | | |
| ▲ | palata 14 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > Children have always found ways to access age restricted consumables Doesn't mean that it's equivalent to giving them free access to those consumables. > But you know which kids did this the least? Source? | | |
| ▲ | hnlmorg 7 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > Doesn't mean that it's equivalent to giving them free access to those consumables. Why do people on HN always need to look at things as a Boolean state? It’s entirely reasonable to have some preventative measures but acknowledging that there are ways to circumvent them and accept that as a reasonable conclusion. Things don’t need to be “all or nothing” ;) > Source? I grew up pre-WWW. Literally lived and breathed the points I’m making. But don’t just take my word on this. Ask anyone of a certain age and they’ll tell you the same: they either tried cigarettes or knew lots of kids in school who smoked under the age of 16. They had access to alcohol under the age of 18. And pornographic content was easy to get hold of under the age of 18. |
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| ▲ | esseph 21 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | > VPN is a national security issue :/ |
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