On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 02:48:07PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Your comment, as well as the comments of others, is orthogonal to the > > question: should children be exposed to anything and everything > > on the Internet? This has no relation to religious beliefs, of > > which I have none, coming from a secular background. > > The problem I see with age verification is the way it shifts the > discussion. The real problem is in what it takes to be exposed to > harmful content. By focusing on age-control, we stop discussing the > responsibility of algorithmic propaganda sites (so-called "social > media"), even though it's also very harmful to grown ups (actually, to > society as a whole).
Exactly. Last Chaos Communication Congress there were a bunch of very good talks on that (currently hot) topic, and most of the takes go into your direction: don't exclude kids, fix "social" media. Actually it seems to be mainly the social media companies lobbies (Meta et al) pushing for that torough age verification (their wet dream: make the state force their users to cough up yet another bit of information). Cheers -- t
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