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theneverfox@pawb.social 2 weeks agoIf they were serious about protecting children, they would have a device level lock and force web pages and apps to positively affirm they are “safe” for minors
That would work, this clearly won’t. This is just censorship, you can’t sanitize the Internet, you can only carve out walled gardens
A rating system like the ESRB would actually be a really good idea for helping parents control what their kids get to see.
It shouldn’t result in any sort of ban or restriction beyond what the parents are able to enforce. The big-name services will have a rating, and it’s up to parents whether or not they’ll let their kids use unrated services.
You could go further than that… Mandate that all new devices and app stores must have a parental lockout available out of the box
Then when you get your kid a phone or computer, you just set up the permissions. This already exists to a large extent, this would just standardize it all to turn it into a usable system
Coopr8@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Don't go giving them ideas. That way leads to Digital ID at birth, which should be avoided at all costs.
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
There’s no digital ID in my system, there’s digital disclaimers and parental locks on the devices
The way we’re going now is digital IDs, they would try to throw it in regardless, but under my plan there’s no place where it could come into play
Coopr8@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
If only I were the king of the world!
I think what you are arguing for is hardcoding requitement for signatures with an "age appropriateness" ranking into the OS. How does this change the current situation where adult sites and apps are legally required to have an age verification popup/warning? Whether signature based or graphically based, what is at issue here is age verification which means referring to some "repository of truth" outside the will of the user. The problem is that the effect of this is to link government ID directly to web traffick, as to truly verify age requires verifying identity meaning abolishing anonymity on the web and enabling complete tracking of dissent.
I could see a version of what you are describing akin to the way physical cryptographic keys are used to manage DRM on high end enterprise software, where identity/age verification would need to be done by the hardware vendor and not the software/site, the problem with that however is the aftermarket and multiple-user devices. You could say that the "age key" would be a hardware device sold to adults using physical ID akin to spirits or tobacco, something like a SIM Card but preferably with NFC rather than having to be installed in the device. "Adult Access" would then be enabled on sign-in by scanning the "age key", enabling onboard software to serve software and sites that don't have an "all ages signature".
Honestly as I write this, it isn't the worst solution, the main thing would be keeping the Age Key as an interchangeable, replaceable device that only interacts with the OS and isn't referenced by other software, so it doesnt just become another Digital ID proxie.