Even if there was some secure, hardened way of verifying people’s ages without handing over PII to random websites, these age verification laws are still utterly ridiculous.
It’s not the government’s job to parent your kids on the internet. If you don’t want your kids visiting specific websites or viewing specific content, you take 15 minutes out of your goddamn day to do your job as a parent, and set up a content blocker on your home network.
Can’t you just use a VPN to get past a content block? Sounds exactly like a project a 14 year old me would research
Perhaps, but most of the good ones are paid, and I would try to set up some way to monitor the internet traffic if I really wanted to go that far.
Like the average person has a clue how to configure a content blocker. LOL
you take 15 minutes out of your goddamn day to do your job as a parent, and set up a content blocker on your home network.
Or, I don’t know, talk to your kid?
Oh absolutely but that’s a parent’s decision. They might decide to be a crap parent and do the minimum amount of effort possible but if they’re going to do that then they should be the ones to install the blocker not the government.
I remember when they tried to introduce a similar law in the UK and absolutely nothing ended up happening because it’s utterly unworkable.
