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submitted 1 year ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

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[-] vd1n@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unpopular opinion, but I’d rather not allow kids on the regular internet.

I’m surprised these issues haven’t been fixed and that the only method I hear about fixing them are ones that break the internet as we know it. Why not think of like some type of sub internet designed for kids that separates them from the chaos of the regular internet…. If I’ve learned on thing living in America it’s that money is wore more than kids or kids futures so it’s hopeless anyway.

Like traffic from a device could be locked down until the users proper age is reached.

Or just try to build better communities where parents take care of their kids.

[-] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

That just moves the exact same question to a slightly different place. How do you verify someone accessing the real internet is an adult without destroying anonymity and therefore privacy?

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 year ago

Well now parents have a choice, only give their own children access to the KinterNet

[-] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago
[-] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh I'm sorry. I should be more clear. You don't. You don't verify people are adults. the capability to verify that is the same capability you need to oppress.

You enable parents to have the right tools to affect what they want for their children. But it's the parent's responsibility to let their kids use cell phones independently without a VPN without internet controls.

It's on the parents to parent their children. If they want to control what their children sees then the parents need to control what the children's devices can do. We can't turn the entire world into Disneyland because a parent doesn't want to deny their child the internet.

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