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Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled (www.cnbc.com)
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New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content, leading to backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates that a free and open internet is at stake. Roughly half of U.S. states have enacted or are advancing laws requiring platforms — including adult content sites, online gaming services, and social media apps — to block underage users, forcing companies to screen everyone who approaches these digital gates.

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[–] undrwater@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Remember that "they" (at least here in the US) are as varied in opinion as are we.

The ones who have a sincere desire to protect children want them to have limited exposure to content online.

My personal thought is children should generally not be engaging others online, but it should be a social push ("don't talk to strangers online" "don't allow your children to be unsupervised online" ).

As for arresting child abusers, we seem to be in the habit of putting them in high office.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

Those people should probably start parenting their own children instead of begging for the government to do it for them, then.

And yes, it's usually the same people.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Children shouldn’t be on Reddit or Lemmy.

[–] undrwater@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I agree, children shouldn't be on tiktok or any of these kinds of platforms.

And yes, it should be social pressure rather than legal pressure.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Parents who care are doing that. The amount of parents who don’t give a fuck and will just put their id in for their kids to watch porn would shock you. Shit the amount of them that would sell their kids to sex slavery is higher than you probably think.

Fuck this law they don’t give a fuck about kids.

[–] undrwater@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

When I was younger, there use to be "public service announcements" on TV that provided education for the kids and adults watching.