It sounds like a better solution than sending photos of ID documents anywhere and everywhere, but at the same time it’s not really different, it’s just centralized. It removes other vectors of privacy breaches, but it doesn’t remove the possibility of a breach entirely.
Just stop requiring age verification to protect an open and anonymous internet. If governments are worried about what kids are doing online, start charging their parents with neglect, because they’re supposed to be the responsible party for their kids’ behavior.
Parents apparently cannot oversee the harm they are causing.
Then that’s still the parents’ fault, IMO. If you can’t teach your child to use the internet safely and responsibly, or adequately monitor the services they use, then you don’t give them internet-enabled devices.
Imagine if instead of the internet, we were talking about going out after dark. A few kids go out and do stupid things at night, but instead of blaming the parents who let them out unsupervised, we set a national curfew for everyone unless you obtain a nighttime permit from the government. Does that sound reasonable?
Your comparison with going out after dark is totally off. It’s much easier to monitor if the kid is in the house than if they access web site they shouldn’t.
Just to blame the parents is too easy. There’s a reason why porn, alcohol, and cigarettes is not allowed to be sold to minors in shops. What you’re asking is that parents shouldn’t allow their kids to to go to shops, just so you don’t have to be provide proof of your age to access to alcohol in your local shop.
More and more of our lives are online and I totally see why we need to do propper online verification for some things.
Agreed.
It sounds like a better solution than sending photos of ID documents anywhere and everywhere, but at the same time it’s not really different, it’s just centralized. It removes other vectors of privacy breaches, but it doesn’t remove the possibility of a breach entirely.
Just stop requiring age verification to protect an open and anonymous internet. If governments are worried about what kids are doing online, start charging their parents with neglect, because they’re supposed to be the responsible party for their kids’ behavior.
Disagree. Parents apparently cannot oversee the harm they are causing. And the social pressure is too high. So it needs to be regulated.
Then that’s still the parents’ fault, IMO. If you can’t teach your child to use the internet safely and responsibly, or adequately monitor the services they use, then you don’t give them internet-enabled devices.
Imagine if instead of the internet, we were talking about going out after dark. A few kids go out and do stupid things at night, but instead of blaming the parents who let them out unsupervised, we set a national curfew for everyone unless you obtain a nighttime permit from the government. Does that sound reasonable?
Sure it’s the parents fault. The discussion is not whose fault it is but the result. Which means → regulate it.
Your comparison with going out after dark is totally off. It’s much easier to monitor if the kid is in the house than if they access web site they shouldn’t.
Just to blame the parents is too easy. There’s a reason why porn, alcohol, and cigarettes is not allowed to be sold to minors in shops. What you’re asking is that parents shouldn’t allow their kids to to go to shops, just so you don’t have to be provide proof of your age to access to alcohol in your local shop.
More and more of our lives are online and I totally see why we need to do propper online verification for some things.