Comment by leftyspook
12 hours ago
The sensible regulation would be aiming at socially harmful features of tech, not forcing people to provide proof of identity to a third party in order to continue harming themselves with the same exact features.
Imagine if such an approach was taken to, for example, food safety? Instead of closing down a restaurant that has poor hygiene, you'd be instead horce the restaurant to hire a private security contractor to check people's IDs to verify that they are old enough to consent to getting a foodborne illness. That's an absurd approach.
Sadly a lot of tech is potentially harmful for kids. And also adults, but they should be able to handle it better.
But it extends to many other common items. Kitchen knifes, cars, lawn mowers, ...
Except we do that for venue that serve poison aka bars, so if you put it that way, it doesn't seem totally absurd.
And gambling! A poison of the mind, if you will.