Comment by KaiserPro
6 hours ago
> you end up needing to ID your customers.
You've needed to do that for at least ten years. Mobile internet either requires a contract, or an ID check before you get a sim (pay and go)
Anyone providing internets is liable for what the users are doing. The way you got out of that is responding to legal requests. (originally mostly copyright)
This is the frustrating thing, we have effective and relatively uncontroversial age gated network (mobile data) already. and it worked.
but now they've done and fucked it up with OSA.
I went to the uk with a foreign SIM. Didn’t have to show my id. I logged onto public WiFi networks without showing my id.
Plenty of ways to get it done.
I don’t think that would have worked. Parents buy phones for their kids since the kids can’t buy them. What would the choices be? Give them a phone or not give them a phone. I don’t think society is ready for that kind of choice anymore.
Or give them an age-locked phone that tells the websites it belongs to a minor.
But its already the case now! As in if you buy an sim now, it comes with filtered internet by default. its been like that for years
You have to phone them up/log in and request the block to be removed.