Comment by cosmos0072
1 day ago
Parents already have a lot of control on children' education.
Examples: most children believe in the same religion as their parents, and can visit friends and places only if/when allowed by their parents.
This is simply extending the same level of control to the internet.
Government-mandated restrictions are completely another level.
I have personally worked with parents trying to prevent their children from using social media and it’s nearly impossible. Kids are almost always more tech savvy than their parents and unlike smoking it’s nearly impossible to tell a child is doing so without watching them 100% of the time.
Who controls your age if you try to buy alcohol.
Who controls your age if you want to see an R-rated movie?
This is simply extending the same level of control to the internet.
More control for parents is a completely different level.
There are no laws preventing children from seeing R-rated movies with or without their parents, theaters implement that policy by choice.
Sort of by choice. Often, the municipality won't let you build a movie theater unless you pinky-promise to abide by the rating system.
They rarely enforce it, but if it gets out of hand, the city will start getting on your case about it.
Welcome to the world where many countries aren’t the US
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Disingenuous, but I'm sure you know that and were being intentionally so. The government is not using alcohol age laws as a justification to place a camera in your bedroom to make sure you aren't sneaking booze, but it is using internet age laws as a justification to surveil your entire life in a world which is becoming increasingly digital-mandatory to participate in government services or the economy. Nobody had a problem with internet age laws when "are you over 13? yes/no" was legally sufficient.
Is California doing this?
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You‘re missing the point
> Having said that, open-source zero-knowledge proofs are infinitely less evil (I refuse to say "better") than commercial cloud-based age monitoring baked into every OS
Parent prefers more control by parents over zero-knowledge proof
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