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@fossilesque@mander.xyz on mander.xyz Open parent

On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states

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@savvywolf@pawb.social on pawb.social Open parent

This is perhaps a controversial statement from someone who is fed up with all this age verification stuff, but having the user age be set on account creation (without providing ID or anything dumb like that) doesn’t seem that bad. It just feels like a way to standardise parental controls. Instead of having to roll their own age verification stuff, software like Discord can rely on the UserAccountStorage value. If it were possible to plug into a browser in a standard, privacy conscious way, it also reduces the need for third party parental control browser extensions, which I imagine can be a bit sketchy. OSes collect and expose language and locale information anyway. What harm is age bands in addition to that?

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@0x0@lemmy.zip on lemmy.zip Open parent

It just feels like a way to standardise parental controls. Then focus on that instead of pushing age laws.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social on pawb.social Open parent

Isn’t this an example of pushing for standardisation of parental controls?

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@0x0@lemmy.zip · Mar 04

Standardization of optional parental controls (and accessibility while we’re at it) would benefit most linux distros imho.

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