Comment on UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs

• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Always was. And “grown up” is just a legal definition. Would you let someone like Trump unsupervised on the internet?

  show need training wheels and rubber corners and a fence to not hurt themselves.

  Ah, so you have a effective way to remove adverts and scammers from the internet?

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  • minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its still unclear to me why all these countries are attempting this legislation at the same time.

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• School_Lunch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I will say that I don’t live in the UK, so maybe it works differently. I’m assuming internet plans include some kind of service contract you have to sign, and minors can’t legally sign contracts without parental consent. So every internet connection is the responsibility of the adult who did sign it. If kids are going to be using it then it is their responsibility to put parental controls on their network and devices.

  But like the other response said, its not actually about protecting kids. Basically, if a politician ever says those words, its almost certainly an attempt to take away freedom.

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