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Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks (www.internetmatters.org)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 85 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I can’t wait to email this to my MP

Canada Bill S209 needs to die. It’s bad legislation.

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  • [+] 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh that's a great idea to use politicians to get past age checks assuming of course they don't get butthurt enough to claim it's full on fraud

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    My email is now 9 pages long…

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Do not do this if you play in grey hat territory. You are going to be on a list.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Not sure what you mean by that.

    I’m just writing an email to oppose this, my email is not like the above poster. I am just laying out arguments why this is a bad solution and will not work.

    Which is what we’re seeing with kids drawing moustaches and borrowing IDs at will.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Politicians don't seem to function this way though. They don't concern themselves with implementation details. People will vote for age verification even if it doesn't work.

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