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When I was 8, I remember being bored and curious and touching a lot of parents stuff... phones... wallets... legal documents...

Most parents don't put their stuff in safes...

Like... THE WALLET IS RIGHT THERE... I COULD JUST GRAB IT!

If they had age verification stuff back then... I could've just... quickly snap a pic of their ID and just YOLO it...

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

None of the additional measures to verify age remove the need for “parents to parent.” This isn’t an either or situation. It’s an all of the above situation.

And then it becomes the parents fault and won’t be the fault of the [shadyinternetcompany^tm^] anymore.

[–] raven@lemmy.org 1 points 6 days ago

But what if the age verification system asks for your video verification + legal documentation? Like many platforms do these days? They need you to frame up your face in on-screen cutout and then provide your documents, then it goes through a review process.

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

Unless they verified their age first.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

It's more about a difficulty barrier.

You could grab your Dad's ID, you could AI his face, his voice, even his writing style. But if that's too inconvenient/finicky for 90% of the population, that's "good enough" for the liability escape/coercive control the system is intended to create.

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[–] StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Back when i was that young there was nothing to take a snap with, cameras back then had to develop film...

Not that we had a computer or internet at that time

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Ok?

I really don't see what this comment adds to the discussion, positive or negative. This is just a comment that's you saying:

"I'm old, and the world changed"

[–] remon@ani.social -2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Well, hopefully the parents are there to stop it ...

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