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Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

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693 points macawfish | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.642s | source
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trynumber9 ◴[12 Jul 25 22:17 UTC] No.44545667[source]▶
I'm genuinely curious. The parent buys the phone/laptop. And when little Timmy logs in to his phone the account should be in a family/group as a child account.

What's with the obsession with actually verifying identity? Just make a web API available to determine if the current user is configured as a child account. Why isn't that enough to gate-keep access to adult content?

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mdavid626 ◴[13 Jul 25 11:20 UTC] No.44549456[source]▶
Timmy's friend in school has parents who have no idea about family/child accounts. They just give him a phone and let him do whatever he wants.

Timmy's friend is really popular in school.

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1. lpribis ◴[13 Jul 25 13:38 UTC] No.44550390[source]▶
Timmy's friend has a big brother that lets him use his ID. There will always be ways to circumvent this. The only functional difference between a simple setting in the browser and requiring ID attestation is how much surveillance it allows the government to do.
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2. mdavid626 ◴[13 Jul 25 13:50 UTC] No.44550465[source]▶
According to this logic, why ban anything? There is always someone who can help you overcome the ban. So, let children buy alcohol and cigarettes, why not also drugs?