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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

You’ve basically got it.

A parent would be required to activate a ‘child lock’ feature on a device before handing it to their kids.

Unfortunately, all governments are too chicken-shit scared to compel parents to do this small thing.

My proposal provides two separate options. One, the one I prefer, is exactly what you said. Inactive by default.

But there is a fallback option that I still think is significantly better than any alternative age verification. Which is that if inactive, social media sites would be required to presume you are underage. This would give governments an extra bit of leeway from the problems you’ve described here. It would require everyone to provide “age verification” (in the form of stating your age to the system, proving only that you have admin access to the device which parents should not be giving to children) without compelling turning over sensitive data like photo ID.

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