Comment by imtringued

>Digital verification exclusively on-device doesn't work because addons and alternative applications make it possible to bypass those checks. There's no credible reason to trust local software to protect the kids.

Then nothing will protect the kids.

I don't mean this tongue in cheek or implying that no protection should exist. I literally mean what I wrote. Children can always acquire hardware that will let them bypass any controls.

What pisses me off the most is people like you who pretend to care about things they don't care about. If only perfect solutions are acceptable, but perfect solutions don't exist, but good enough solutions are insufficient because of some theoretical bypass, then you essentially argue for no protection at all, but you do this under the pretense of advocating for protection. That is your stance, not mine.

Children who actively seek out blocked content are simply unstoppable. There is nothing you can do about that, so instead of going on and on about your nirvana fallacy, you should be happy with protecting the children who aren't adversaries to your protection scheme. After all, protecting children is good, so protecting millions of children should be better than protecting no children. The fact that there is a hypothetical fascist police state in which it is possible to protect every single child on the planet through world domination (in the name of protecting children) should play no role in making that decision.