▲ 823 ▼ Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws (techcrunch.com) submitted 1 year ago by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 219 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children) And your solution is...? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child) There's no problem, so we don't need one. We got by just fine without age verification on the internet for decades permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago* I'm not sure if we are doing that fine. The thing about the decades is there wasn't really a web for kids to browse. Nowadays it's different. But still, I agree with you. We should keep responsibility to the parents as long as possible. But I really don't think my friend's daughter should be browsing TikTok at her age. (Which is my friend's task, not mine or that of some pedo in government) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child) There's no problem, so we don't need one. We got by just fine without age verification on the internet for decades permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago* I'm not sure if we are doing that fine. The thing about the decades is there wasn't really a web for kids to browse. Nowadays it's different. But still, I agree with you. We should keep responsibility to the parents as long as possible. But I really don't think my friend's daughter should be browsing TikTok at her age. (Which is my friend's task, not mine or that of some pedo in government) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago* I'm not sure if we are doing that fine. The thing about the decades is there wasn't really a web for kids to browse. Nowadays it's different. But still, I agree with you. We should keep responsibility to the parents as long as possible. But I really don't think my friend's daughter should be browsing TikTok at her age. (Which is my friend's task, not mine or that of some pedo in government) permalink fedilink source parent