Charcole (Echo)
Alright. Let me give my two-cents on age verification.
Completely unnecessary.
Look, I'm all for keeping minors out of adult content, alright? But it's getting out of hand now. Parental controls have worked for the longest time, and it just feels like everyone's trying to hop on the bandwagon of the UK's OSA. It's just a way to collect information about people.
Your ID isn't getting verified. We've already found that out with how easy it is to bypass. Your information is being sold. Persona was collecting it, probably to sell.
Now, the Colorado government is trying to pass OS-level age verification, which is just... Beyond dystopian. This is just downright draconic. Either these lawmakers have no idea what they're doing, or know exactly what they're doing.
And it's not going to stop, either.
They're going to keep pushing these data collection bills, and companies are pushing it globally - nobody will be safe, no matter where in the world you are.
Parental controls worked. Protecting the child is the parent's
Feb 27 at 2:03pmWeb
Show threadCharcole (Echo)Feb 27
problem. Not ours.
Show threadchronic crashout dog [Viridi Vix]Feb 27
@charcole that's exactly what it is. I said it before it's people are still having children that they either aren't willing to or aren't equipped to raise a child. Whether or not there's an age gate on a website isn't gonna do all the heavy lifting of teaching your child how to avoid harmful people or adult content and by the time they're reaching adulthood they won't have those skills developed on how to keep themselves safe. Whatever old fart boomers in the UK voted for OSA who want to offload the responsibility of raising their kids to the government were fuckin idiots and companies are loving it that they have an excuse to collect and sell even more PII