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by simoncion2 hours ago |
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upvoteby microtonal1 hours ago|
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Nah. Parental Controls are baked into every major consumer OS.

Even the parental controls that are there are a train wreck. Our kid has an iPhone and the parental controls have all kinds of weird issues like, you give them 15 minutes of WhatsApp daily. First time on a day they start WhatsApp it says that all their time is up. Or suddenly they cannot run an application that was permitted by a parent. Then you uninstall and install the app again and suddenly it works.

It is unusable.

There web is also a huge hole in all of this. A lot of services you can also use as a website. A whitelist is too limiting and a blacklist is a daily task to maintain (and would require spying on your kid).

I also prefer to avoid age attestation altogether, but I am also not sure what the solution is. I think many people do not realize how much social pressure there is to use certain apps/games and how bad parental controls are. Yes, we say "no" to a lot of things, but you cannot say "no" to everything. Missing certain cultural touchstones (certain TV shows, certain games) makes your child an outsider.

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upvoteby simoncion1 hours ago|
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> Even the parental controls that are there are a train wreck.

As I said:

  If government cared about giving guardians the tools needed to care for the vulnerable ones they're responsible for, they'd require those parental controls to be beefed up...
> There web is also a huge hole in all of this.

and as I went on to say:

  ...and that it be a requirement that online services and both local and remote software be required to honor the restrictions required by those Parental Controls.
I expect that you don't, but if you'd like to argue that it's impossible for the government to do either or both things, then I'd argue that it's impossible for them to make age and/or ID verification work.
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upvoteby SoftTalker1 hours ago|
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I agree... the government's plan (as usual) misses the mark and probably won't solve the problem. But the reason the government is getting involved is precisely because parental controls (if any) that were delivered by the platforms were too hidden, too complicated, and had to be set for every app or website instead of once on the device and have that enforced on everything.
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upvoteby simoncion1 hours ago|
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> But the reason the government is getting involved is...

Nope.

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