Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for privacy. But between setting up the birthdate when creating my children’s local account on their computers, and having to send a copy of their ID to every platform under the sun, I’d easily chose the former.

I’d even agree to a simple protocol (HTTP X-Over-18 / X-Over-21 headers?) to that.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 days ago

    Whether it should be government-mandated is one question,

    That:s my primary issue

    Is your expectation then that parents should sit over their kids’ shoulder every moment that they access the internet? Are our tools not supposed to make that easier to handle?

    In a perfect world, I would want APIs and other integrations be made available that will do that and the parent will only need to press a button to allow/deny it.
    Not really government mandated but voluntarily by a group that executes the vision of a parent, requested by the government (due to requests by the parental society but not because corps deciding they need/want more controllable elements) and the technical parties (e.g. OS devs) that can integrate the wish.

    Unfortunately this will probably be a mandated integration requiring everyone, doesnt matter if a child is existing, to authenticate that they are truly legally able to access the device and/or ressource.
    Great, now as a childless person I have to do those things because some were irresponsible and ruined it for everyone :/

    I hope I could communicate my issue.