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teen go to website

please enter your birthdate

1/1/2000

welcome!

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Lawyer sues tech company

But we asked for the birthday

Lawyer points to law text

Company fined

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I don’t see many options between asking for a birthdate and asking for ID for this problem. I don’t see any way that this can be enforced that isn’t problematic.

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Facebook/Meta has developed software to estimate the age from a video.

I don’t see any way that this can be enforced that isn’t problematic.

Comes with the territory. The point is to control who has access to what information so that they don’t get wrong ideas.

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I don’t see many options between asking for a birthdate and asking for ID for this problem. I don’t see any way that this can be enforced that isn’t problematic.

The senate inquiry outlined the two likely solutions :

  1. Uploading ID to the website.

  2. 3D face scanning. This will include continual monitoring so if another person comes into view they will have to face scan in. Remember, its prohibited for chidren to even watch prohibited content with their parents.

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A large part of this will help maintain liability for harm to young people. How ages is verified is irrelevant

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Problematic for who, the tech companies? They’re practically printing money. Let them spend it on actual solutions to issues that are causing problems for the World.

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I’m well old enough to satisfy these checks and I also do this. If I’m feeling productive, I’ll pick a random date.

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