Comment by AnthonyMouse
2 days ago
In many states it's perfectly legal for parents to provide their kids with alcohol. Only stores can't do it. And many religious rites involve wine, for example. Moreover, it would be up to parents either way, because even in the ID case, if parents want to allow their kids to access everything they could just provide them with a device configured under the parent's ID.
At which point there is no reason to invade everyone's privacy with IDs because parents can just make their choice when configuring the device their kids use and have the device rather than the service choose what to display.
Yeah that's a good point that I certainly didn't think about it that way, but it's something that the ID verification people never quite address.
When I was a kid, I played neopets. For whatever reason, they age gated some content (maybe messaging or other social features) because when you sign up you have to specify your age. I was young, so I didn't know I could lie on the internet, so I said I was 10 or something. And then my friend who did lie and say he was 18+ wanted to be my friend on neopets, but I couldn't be his friend because I needed to get parent permission to access that feature.
Anyway, I printed out a permission slip, asked my mom to sign it, and she signed it without looking at it. I mailed it to neopets (we didn't have a scanner) and soon enough I was playing with the big kids!
Anyway, one could say that my mom was neglectful for having not read it before signing it, or one could say that she merely trusted me that I wasn't asking her for permission to watch porn. But it's not a stretch to think that even with ID laws, parents can still let their kids access whatever they want by giving them access to accounts or devices that have already verified identity. Granted, I don't see parents giving their kids their PornHub password, but kids can be crafty, if they want to access adult content, they'll find a way. I don't know if this is true, but someone on discord said they just uploaded an AI generated license and got age verified.