Comment by declan_roberts
4 days ago
This TOTALLY ORGANIC movement to suddenly please think about the children with required age verification in software makes me sick.
Whoever is behind this needs to be exposed, tarred, and feathered.
4 days ago
This TOTALLY ORGANIC movement to suddenly please think about the children with required age verification in software makes me sick.
Whoever is behind this needs to be exposed, tarred, and feathered.
Please don't fulminate or use all-caps on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Great, thanks!
It's pretty well understood to be Meta, isn't it?
Not as simple as that.
Meta's well know campaign was actually to make the app stores (and maybe OSes) responsible for age verification, not apps.
Google and Apple campaigned to make apps responsible for it.
Meta and the spooks, yeah
Does anyone have a citation for this that wasn't written by Claude? It wouldn't surprise me, but I refuse to look through AI slop to check the accuracy of the report.
It was written by Claude, the question is if it's accurate.
Big Tech in general.
The kids are very fucked up tho by the internet in our pockets. I'm Not sure that id on OS is the solution. But we should be trying something
Parenting problems require parenting solutions.
There are so many things where we don’t do that. There are laws against giving children so many dangerous things, because you can’t watch them constantly outside the house, and honest I think unrestricted internet is worse for a child than alcohol. I’m not saying this is the right answer, but pretending it’s just a parental problem seems oversimplifying.
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We should be focusing only on solutions that don't violate user privacy.