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Or you know, you can let parents take care of their own kids. Stop telling me how to parent my own kids in my own house!
Also obligatory reminder, consumer home routers have had parental controls for years. You can use these functions to whitelist specific websites for your children, while simultaneously block everything not on said whitelist.
On top of this, this is the most privacy respectful option as it means no third party is snooping on what sites your visiting, no one is collecting analytics, and no personal information is made available to said third parties to be hacked and compromised, ultimately protecting you from any identity theft.
If parents could make responsible decisions then this would never have been an issue.
We could make it a form of child abuse for parents who let their kids on these websites.
Parents suck at parenting most of the time. That's why there are rules specific to minors in a lot of things.
Although for the most part they are terrible useless rules, like movie and game ratings which pretty much everyone that I know of ignores
There are a lot of things parents can do on their own, but their mental capacity is limited, and things like this make it easier. Peer pressure exists, this helps level the playing field. It also makes it availible to all parents, regardless of how they get their internet (not always a home router).
I can also always stop my kid from looking at advertisements targeted directly at kids as a parent. But it's a lot fucking easier in Québec where it's banned and I didn't have to deal with cartoons of cereal boxes.
Between public wifi's and companies harvesting the data of children; this goes way beyond you or anyone's ability to parent.
The notion that this is a failure of parents is just another lie social media convinced you so they could keep preying upon your children.
Don't trust you kid with public WiFi? Don't give them a device that can use public WiFI. Lock it down or lock it up.
Don't want to put in the effort to supply your kids with a safe device that gives them a filtered experience, well that just sounds like you don't want to be a parent.
Parental apathy is paving the way to a locked down internet.
While I agree mostly, you’re acting like getting their hands on an uncontrolled device is hard. Even a decade ago, an old smart phone could be had for a song. Hell, people throw away phones with cracked screens all the time. Then just hop on a neighbors WiFi and bobs your uncle.
Do I think that means all people should have to verify their age? Absolutely not. But this isn’t necessarily something that can be solved with “just be a parent.”
I don't see how uploading a picture with my personal information to every website I visit would be a solution to this through. Now what about enthusiasts that want to host a website for a blog (like myself) do I need to start to collect your personal information when you choose to visit my website? What will I be able to do with said information?
Instead a simple solution would be something similar to what libraries and librarians do.
Websites should be classified based on age brackets, genres, and any other useful identifying information similar to how books are classified in libraries.
I would propose that a local government funded initiative be setup that to allows the same equivalent of a librarian to curate the internet into defined whitelists based on these criteria.
From there parent then can choose or not choose to activate these specific whitelists either at the home network level or device level.
All this tech already exists, and for tech-savvy users, this functions basically the same way as a pihole or AdGuard, these can also be completely setup both in your home network and still function while out.
You're conflating UK age verification laws for accessing porn with Social Media bans in Australia.
There's a difference between prohibiting social media companies from providing services to 13 year olds and legally requiring companies to verify ID.
So how would any proposed laws be enforceable without some sort of ID verification (ie. Age verification) in place?
Or are we talking a simple "confirm you're not a robot button", but for age? Similar to what porn sites have asking if you're over 18.
Or would you prefer everyone including yourself need to upload something like a drivers license to access websites... Like Lemmy for example?
Yes, there is a difference, but one leads to the other. How do you think the bans will be enforced?