Apologies if this isn’t the right place to ask this, but I thought actual developers with a deep understanding of how technology actually works would be the people to ask!
If you were tasked with setting up a safe and secure way to do this, how would you do it differently than what the UK government is proposing? How could it be done such that I wouldn’t have to worry about my privacy and the threat of government suppression? Is it even theoretically possible to accomplish such a task at such a scale?
Cheers!
EDIT: Just to be clear: I’m not in favour of age verification laws. But they’re on their way regardless. My question is purely about the implementation and technology of the thing, rather than the ethics or efficacy of it. Can this seemingly-inevitable privacy hellscape be done in a non-hellscapish way?
I’m not assuming anything, I was practically raised on the internet, and I am a survivor of sexual abuse and grooming, and I am telling you categorically, this is a fucking terrible idea.
You do not need to censor the Internet to protect kids. You just need to be a trustworthy, reliable, attentive adult and raise your kids in a safe, loving environment. Grooming happens when a kid is vulnerable and needs attention from adults that they do not receive from trustworthy adults around them. Everything else, if your kid trusts you and comes across something upsetting or suspicious online, they will tell you, and you can help them get through it and stay safe. You do your kids no favors by sheltering them from reality.
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Parental control software existing is a terrible idea?
There is insufficient incentive for games like Roblox to provide effective controls for parents to manage their childrens accounts.
That should change.
I was raised by loving and trustworthy parents. It didn’t save me from curiosity leading me to things I was far, far too young to see. No amount of love and care can fix that.
No. You let them learn to swim in he shallows to prepare them. Blind trust is like throwing them into the deep end and seeing if they figure it out before drowning.
Having a supportive, loving and trustworthy environmnet didn’t stop me from wanting to kill myself.
I figured out how to swim, eventually. But I should not have had to.
Are you seriusly suggesting that nothing bad will happen to children as long as their parents just care enough?
Yes, it is. It is teaching your kids that you do not trust them, and it is indulging your own paranoia. People love to spout about this “I was too young to see” shit but it’s reactionary knee-jerk nonsense. Did seeing gore or whatever you’re referring to actually do you any long-term harm, seriously?
Only if you never lift the restrictions, and coddle instead of raise them.
A parent buying their kid their first beer is a show of trust, and confidence in having prepared them. That they weren’t allowed before isn’t some paranoia about turning them into an alcoholist. It’s about preparation and maturity.
It is a display that shows that the parent feels their child is ready and responsible enough for the ability to decide themselves to be granted to them.
A parent enforcing a rule before that is not some violation.
Only, for the internet, the tools and know-how to do so are rare or non-existent.
My parents did this with tons of things as me and my siblings grew up. Each time trusting us with a new piece of responsibility, when they felt we were ready.
What kind of parent doesn’t decide their childrens bedtime until they can sanely maintain their sleep schedule themselves?
It was a big day when I was granted the ability to go to visit friends without asking permission first.
Parental control and guidance is essential for the stage-by-stage raising of a child into adulthood. Both online and offline, only tools and practices around the former practically don’t exist.
Each parent is also on a deadline. When someone turns 18, all rules come off whether you’re ready or not.
As a parent, you should aim for your kid to be making as many decisions themselves as possible by then.
And did you seriously just try to use dismissing my trauma as a point, instead of a logical retort?
Can you tell me a bit about how you experienced that trauma? What happened? What did you see? How did it affect you?
None of your business.
I don’t need you approval that my past is “real enough” to be allowed to argue my point.
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Sure.
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Not the comment where I actually make my case.
Your entire case presumes that there is a harm to prevent. Kids are prevented from drinking alcohol because we know alcohol is harmful to minors. If there is no harm, then there is no harm to prevent.
You are rationalizing your prejudices, and you know it. I’m done with you. I actually have PTSD from being abused as a kid and your bullshit “oh I have trauma cuz I saw a scary pic once” can actually get fucked, and I am now blocking you.