Well,it is not their fault if the user lied about their age.
Making it their problem (they=Big Tech) means completely abandoning privacy for everyone.
Seriously,it’s the responsibility of parents to make sure their kids only do what they’re allowed to.
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You haven’t seen any because age verification in the UK only applies to websites that enable access to pornographic content if it might be accessible to people under the age of 18.
There have been some rather silly scare stories about this. There are over a billion websites in the world, and Ofcom (the body that enforces the Online Safety Act) has under 2,000 staff. I really don’t see them contacting Haiku any time soon, and if they did, they would not find much porn.
ok then i didnt know that
What you need to tell the Senator is that This proposed “law” is creating a database of children that any preditor can access and he is directly liable for anything that happens to any child effected by this “law” and it puts him and anyone else sponsoring or voting in favor of this law in the spotlight as a potential suspect.
Surely, a database held by say a social media network will contain only those above a certain age and thus will not be a database of vulnerable children? Whether a particular user account is a minor or not at a certain point in time is supposedly held by one’s device (often a smartphone OS?) and not aggregated at some central database? That would seem to be the sensible way of protecting children, anyway.
It will contain a database of everyone who submitted information. And there are vulnerable adults too. Especially those who are just over the minimum age.
The moment the website asks the OS for this information, is the moment the information ends up in the website’s database.
I’m sorry to say but from what I understand this is actually the opposite of “protecting children”. Protecting children appears to be the sales pitch only. Children and everyone else will become products and target audiences for anyone who pays. This must not be allowed to happen. Please do not buy the story that this is to protect anyone. This is a digital wolf in sheeps clothing.
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Agreed. Children’s internet activity should be disallowed from being traced at all, if internet access at that age is even allowed.
This response from another single-user operating system is IMHO somewhat relevant to Haiku:
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It’s spreading ….
No, Haiku should never bend the knee
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From a ethical standpoint,I absolutely agree with you.
These laws are dumb if not outright hostile and Haiku should ignore them if we don’t have to fear any consequences.
If there are possible consequences,the project should do the minimum required to avoid them or move to a friendlier jurisdiction.
From my personal standpoint,yes,I find this laws absolutely ridiculous and stupid,but as long as I can enter any random birthday,I can live with that.
If I had to somehow proof my age or identity,I’d leave.
I will not upload official documents to online services,ever.
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We will certainly not host any services that require such documents, as we can’t be trusted with such sensitive data.
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The next state is Colorado where there is a draft bill and ready for vote.
The problematic in US is the California legal stuff many times spread across whole the States if for the providers the costs too much to stands out 2 different version from the same product :
one for uniquely just for California (and other next possible states who follow them from any kind of reason )
and one for the other states and rest of the world.
If the product expensive, the cost of different versions can be justified as the finance enables it.
The firms thinks different - they calculate always the costs. They change for cheaper parts if a small gap in costs multiplied by million times as then that turns into a visible one sum of money.
I admit - the rulers had not keep in mind FOSS world and how their organizations work when such one fist bills they created. Also most of them started to work on open source world to get out from closed source constraints.
It was really strange when Youtube started - me, an adult - handle as a minor. It started to progress lately as they start to push what I can access as my account is “minor”.
I do not understand why and how a service becomes like an authorities and ask for IDs moreover behave like an officer or office of the state - ridiculous.
The question and answer to your age should be enough. In case minors their parents should be tailored what they can reach .. not a whole society should be forced to accomodate due to some content or service does not fit for minors.
EDIT :
I just see your later post - we used the same word ‘ridiculous’ and agree on the authorities-like stuff on OS and personal devices.
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