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Age verification doesn’t work

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134 points salutis | 3 comments | 05 Sep 25 06:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.545s | source
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ckbkr10 ◴[05 Sep 25 07:07 UTC] No.45135779[source]▶
I wish there was a honest discussion, I am with them about parents not giving a shit and pushing away responsibility. The idea of supervision in education institutions is good as well.

The kids in my family were well protected and supervised, they got into contact with hardcore porn at the age of 6 when other kids had access to smartphones and exposed them to it.

I would like to see a honest discussion about the impact of porn on kids, I cannot really imagine that it doesn't distort the view and expectations on sex.

In my 20s I was promiscious and lived what I saw in pornography, only later in life I learned about normal sex.

In germany we had a state sponsored porn flick once produced by ZDF Neo, maybe that is the approach to expose the kids to material that shows sex as a respectable flow rather than an extreme fantasy.

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happymellon ◴[05 Sep 25 07:56 UTC] No.45136089[source]▶
Why don't they do things that are within their control.

Such as mandatory site filtering options. So the same place you pay your bill, you can also set which sites you want to be blocked by an "admin" password.

Or are they afraid that people will add tracking.facebook.com to the block list?

The chances of the kids stealing the admin password are about as likely as the kids stealing your age verification password that you needed to set up to access Reddit.

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blitzar ◴[05 Sep 25 07:58 UTC] No.45136109[source]▶
Parents dont want to be the "bad guy" or parents in any real sense.
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1. edu ◴[05 Sep 25 08:04 UTC] No.45136150[source]▶
I think it's more the case that many parents are not tech savvy enough to even know that's possible or how to do it. Also, this create a safety net which seems too fragile, as you just need one family that doesn't do it to potentially expose all their friends.
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2. blitzar ◴[05 Sep 25 09:54 UTC] No.45136798[source]▶
It's no different to the phones for toddlers at school - they can, they know how, they are just even more affected by FOMO, peer pressure and judgement than children.

The other excuses are all just cope - little Timmy will just find a way around the blocks is true. Little Timmy can also get Heroin if he really wants or just one family might offer all the kids a hit on a crack pipe but it isn't an excuse to keep a needle, pipe and some fresh gear in the living room.

3. happymellon ◴[05 Sep 25 09:57 UTC] No.45136815[source]▶
The rules can be whatever they want them to be.

Block adult sites by default (much like a lot of phone companies already do) and the account owner can go in a make changes.

You only need one kid with a fake id that works, or for them to discover AI that can fake faces on a webcam to potentially expose all their friends...

Lazyness is a terrible excuse