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Even if there was some secure, hardened way of verifying people’s ages without handing over PII to random websites, these age verification laws are still utterly ridiculous.
It’s not the government’s job to parent your kids on the internet. If you don’t want your kids visiting specific websites or viewing specific content, you take 15 minutes out of your goddamn day to do your job as a parent, and set up a content blocker on your home network.
Or, I don't know, talk to your kid?
Oh absolutely but that's a parent's decision. They might decide to be a crap parent and do the minimum amount of effort possible but if they're going to do that then they should be the ones to install the blocker not the government.
I remember when they tried to introduce a similar law in the UK and absolutely nothing ended up happening because it's utterly unworkable.
Can't you just use a VPN to get past a content block? Sounds exactly like a project a 14 year old me would research
Teaching the youth to protect their Internet identity feels like a win.
How'd you get your user name like that?
It's in Unicode. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_indicator_symbol
You can update your display name on your instance website.
So China is actually based?
There is no such thing as a perfect country
Really like the look of China's HSR though
Perhaps, but most of the good ones are paid, and I would try to set up some way to monitor the internet traffic if I really wanted to go that far.
I self-host on a VPS, but also spoof the client hello of another website so it looks like I'm accessing yahoo.com or something
You would have to actually reverse lookup each IP to realize "hey, that's not a yahoo.com IP"
Nah, it's easier if I have the state do it for me while inconveniencing everyone else. /s
Like the average person has a clue how to configure a content blocker. LOL
Not sure why you're being downvoted, you're right. The average parent has no idea how to block their kids from visiting pornhub. I don't think that's an excuse to make age verification required. Parents should educate themselves on this stuff.