Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control.
nickhammes@lemmy.world 2 days agoIt’s all about the implementation. The Washington bill is treating diet products as similar to alcohol (check ID in-store and on delivery), which seems fine to me.
The NY law seems to be suggesting that dating app services need to collect (and possibly retain) sensitive information on people, like identification, location data. That’s troubling to me.
WarlockoftheWoods@lemy.lol 2 days ago
I understand the concern but if ot stops underage people from getting on, I think it’s a good idea. All social media needs it too. We have to protect our kids better. As someone with step kids, I hate that they use tiktok but they were already addicted to it when I entered the picture.
nickhammes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s an important distinction here: “is a good idea” is not “is the right way to do it”. You can also keep kids off of dating apps by banning dating apps, banning children from the Internet, or even just banning children. All of those are horrible solutions, but they achieve the goal.
The goal should be to balance protecting kids with minimizing collateral damage. Forcing adults to hand over significant amounts of private data to prove their identity has the same basic fault as the hyperbolic examples, that it disregards the collateral damage side of the equation.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
if you are a parent, it’s you whose responsibility is to protect your children. if you are incapable of keeping up with what they do on their devices, and incapable of educating your child on how to use the internet, maybe you shouldn’t have made one. if you don’t do these, and you want these to be “solved” with laws, you are just forcing mass surveillance on everyone out of your fucking laziness.
WarlockoftheWoods@lemy.lol 2 days ago
You are a massive retard and I hope you die
kobra@lemm.ee 2 days ago
The best way to protect kids is to stop having them ffs.
WarlockoftheWoods@lemy.lol 2 days ago
They aren’t mine, I jist take care of them cuz their father is an incompetent redneck pos. But that’s for the useless fucking advice, ass-hat
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
what you said, you hope that I die? thanks for the good wishes I guess!
but I see that you have deleted the comment. not sure though if the reality of it hit you, or just out of fear of a ban
LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
You can block tiktok’s domains at the router DNS level. At least then they can’t watch it on the home wifi.