The people do want this crap. If you have kids of a certain age, you know kids that have had near misses with grooming on Roblox, or have seen the comments from men on child Tiktok accounts. It's a stupid amount of exposure that we just didn't have to deal with as kids.

People just don't understand the problems implementing AVS.

I'd be much much happier submitting details or a face scan to a .gov.uk service than all these rando verification services.

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anthk a day ago | parent [-]

Then do your parenting and stop limiting the rights of the rest.

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oliwarner a day ago | parent | next [-]

Tell me you don't have teenagers without telling me you don't have teenagers. I'd love kids to do what they're told. That would absolutely solve this but as we all know, they don't.

But how are your rights limited?

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cowboylowrez 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Who's buying your kids internet access? Are they getting it on a street corner from a stranger? lol I doubt it.

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oliwarner 20 hours ago | parent [-]

They could, yes. You can buy 5GB of service for £2.50 at many convenience stores. Paid cash.

This is such a weird angle. Like saying shops shouldn't age check for alcohol because the parents would know.

They are also friends with other children who have their own parents, devices and network access. Your child doesn't live in a bubble you have control over.

These are all the same fantasy arguments that completely ignore the pervasiveness of the internet and the tenacity of determined children. 15 years of waiting to see if social networks can fix this themselves has only shown us how much they want to exploit us all. They earned this.

	▲	Citizen_Lame 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Just parent and educate your children mate, it's simply your personal failure. Have you tried talking to them, you would be surprised, they are not dumb. Besides this legislation won't solve the problem, it will simply postpone it, while at the same time it will require everyone to do identity verification to access anything. But it's disappointing to see these kind of comments here, as you are clearly individual with limited technical abilities. Come next election, it will be surprised Pikachu face from many.

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inigyou 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"crack dealers are trying to sell crack to my kids at street corners, can we ban that?" "No! Just do your parenting!"

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lux-lux-lux 21 hours ago | parent [-]

> if I replace ‘internet access’ with ‘crack,’ then that sure changes the argument!

Damn dude really makes you think

	▲	inigyou 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Just parent your kids.