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slowin 6 hours ago

Age verification.

Mistletoe 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes but why do you need to verify your age to use computer hardware?

dmix 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because people are naive enough to think the huge privacy compromise will be worth the cost to society in order to protect kids.

The better question is why in 5yrs we will have to use ID to buy a product on some random ecommerce site or to play a video game or use Uber or post a comment on Reddit. It will be because people pushed for this for kids on social media and opened the door for the rest of the internet companies to demand it and therefore the government.

vlyan 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I really hate it when some vague "people" are blamed for this bullshit. those who do -- a minority -- do it only because they've been brainwashed by the relentless public opinion campaign ran jointly by the capital and the governments.

zamadatix 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They can't stand the idea you'd use it without a social media account. It's Facebook after all.

slowin 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You shouldn't have to do this and I won't. I'll vote with my dollars and never buy another device from them. It's too bad because I genuinely liked it as well, but it's not worth the invasion of privacy and normalizing sending this type of information to any consumer company.

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tyrabound 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Think of the children … or are your a chomo? Now hand over your papers for access to information and communications more that all the books have been fed into the AI shredder and paper and writing instruments were done away with to save the planet.

Daz912 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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