Do you actually care? Because I don’t especially feel like following up a question apparently in defence of some belligerent oaf who doesn’t bother reading. But you’re not the same person so maybe you’re just picking me up and aren’t so interested in their line.
I don’t understand why a meme posting website should be required to check your ID, and I’m trying to understand why someone thinks it’s a good idea to require such insanity.
It’s not about checking id, it’s about asking for a users age at all.
And, if there were an unobtrusive, safe way to prevent kids seeing hardcore porn (something which research suggests is probably not good) then it should apply to places uniformly. Calling it a meme website is kinda skirting the issue of whether it has that content. It doesn’t really, but it used to, and it was a meme website the whole while.
You’re operating under the assumption that putting an “are you old enough?” checkbox on a website would ever change the behavior of a child. That’s completely unrealistic and disconnected from reality. Perhaps if children need to have a controlled exposure to the internet, it is the parents’ responsibility to foster a safe environment and monitor the child. You know, since that actually does something.
FishFace@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Do you actually care? Because I don’t especially feel like following up a question apparently in defence of some belligerent oaf who doesn’t bother reading. But you’re not the same person so maybe you’re just picking me up and aren’t so interested in their line.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I don’t understand why a meme posting website should be required to check your ID, and I’m trying to understand why someone thinks it’s a good idea to require such insanity.
FishFace@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s not about checking id, it’s about asking for a users age at all.
And, if there were an unobtrusive, safe way to prevent kids seeing hardcore porn (something which research suggests is probably not good) then it should apply to places uniformly. Calling it a meme website is kinda skirting the issue of whether it has that content. It doesn’t really, but it used to, and it was a meme website the whole while.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
You’re operating under the assumption that putting an “are you old enough?” checkbox on a website would ever change the behavior of a child. That’s completely unrealistic and disconnected from reality. Perhaps if children need to have a controlled exposure to the internet, it is the parents’ responsibility to foster a safe environment and monitor the child. You know, since that actually does something.