An Angus Reid survey says three-quarters of more than 4,000 respondents are in favour of a ban like the one in Australia, where youth under 16 are prevented from setting up accounts on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Threads.
An Angus Reid survey says three-quarters of more than 4,000 respondents are in favour of a ban like the one in Australia, where youth under 16 are prevented from setting up accounts on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Threads.
I mean, in an ideal world, you just implement it at the OS level. You don’t need to send PII off device ever.
Why does it matter if it’s a checkbox when you sign up or a number held by your OS? Leave the OS alone and hold parents accountable for the actions of their children.
Lmao, and how many children do you have, oh wise one?
I mean, with that logic, why do we ban cigarettes from kids too? Why not just let cigarette companies advertise and sell cigarettes to kids, and just “hold parents accountable for the actions of their children”?
Boot lick harder
My servers should not be legally required to verify my age. My TV should not be legally required to verify my age. Parents should be legally required to monitor and filter their children’s access to the internet.
Lmao, the guy defending using Instagram is calling others a bootlicker?
Please social media companies, fuck everyone harder, we can’t possibly have a TV maker have the ability to lock it down with parental controls, society would collapse if that were to happen!
Oh wait, literally every single TV sold in the past 25 years has had that.
The problem is that this basically makes these checks mandatory. You can choose not to use Facebook, but you cant choose to not use an operating system. Plus it might mess with linux development to have this at the OS level
So? If you’re not using Facebook then it’s not an issue. If you don’t add your age to your OS it’s not an issue.
In an ideal implementation you just have the option of setting up a restricted device with their age, and if that’s set, then the OS passes it to the browser and it passes it to the site, and if it’s a restricted account and it’s under age then the site and/or browser doesn’t load anything.
Okay, I guess it wouldnt necessarily be mandatory then. I still worry about the strain it would be on linux developers tho