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Not sure why you think this has anything to do with children other than in name.

It’s ID verification.





Totally agreed. Banning it for children also means mandating identification for all adults.

I don't want to be forced to doxx myself just because some parents can't control their children.


If it was to stop kids you’d have these sites set a header or similar and allow parents to use their existing parental controls to enforce it.

Yes exactly. That would simply solve it.

In Holland there's even ISPs that filter porn and stuff, like https://kliksafe.nl . They're used by ultra-religious conservative communities (calvinists). Even adults use it there.

I view this as a much better solution. The people that want it can do their blocking and the rest of us aren't bothered with verifications and stuff.

Personally I belong to the sex-positive movement which thinks diametrically opposite about such matters :)


You will loose this argument because there is a real problem with children and AI slop. Especially because there is a problem with AI slop and handling it by people in general.

Provide a solution which doesn’t require that, like some other top commenter did. Otherwise, you have already lost.


Oh now its AI slop lol. Anyway the fact is that no children should be left unattended on the internet.

So 13 year olds have to have active parental helicoptering for every piece of homework they do?

No, just education in media literacy and how to critically evaluate sources.

That’s a problem that just a small portion of the population know these, so the average parent has the same problem.

One would figure a русский would be more wary of the nanny state.

And yet there's opposition to teaching it in schools!

"I love the poorly educated"

- Some Guy


I mean the internet was a thing when I was 13. What is even your response to the fact that an entire generation has already gone through this?

The primary difference is that back then there was strong parental supervision and guidance.




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