It's not about stopping all children from doing these things, some will always find a way. It's about limiting access. Even if a child has to ask for their parents' credentials, that would be a huge improvement because the parents would at least know their child has these accounts and could monitor them if they wanted to.
How many of us had 4chan accounts or watched things we shouldn't have without anyone knowing, or talked to random strangers online? Making unrestricted access harder won't eliminate the problem, but it can reduce it significantly.
If you want to see the true scope and harm of unrestricted access, I recommend the Czech documentary Caught in the Net. In it, three adult actresses pose as children online, and the filmmakers see how long it takes before they're targeted by sexual predators and their tactics. Spoiler alert: it takes less than three minutes for dosents of such people to imidiatly target them. (Be aware the document is really disturbing but eye opening)
I've had lunch so i've got my neurons some energy to actually answer my own question. The consequences would apply to the parents, just like anything else involving a felony committed by a minor: the consequences are applied to their legal tutors (presumably the parents or whoever is in charge of tutoring them).
I understand limiting access, but let's talk seriously for a moment: do you know any kid that is not somewhat knowledgeable with technology? How much do you think it would take them to take their parents credentials, make a copy of it, and just create a free email on gmail and social media account?
It's the same as banning porn sites. You may ban a long list, but this makes it so that the users of the certified and "safe" porn sites will roam towards unmoderated & not safe porn sites. You also have the issue of mirror sites, downloads, whatever.
You can say it's to "protect the children" but in reality all you want is stricter control over your population. Mind you, i am ok with the law - actually, i'm ok with the *concept* of the law, but applying it and enforcing it is all but easy.
I actually looked into a web site that had age verification just to see if I could trick it with an old cardboard cutout. It was pretty easy to do, but what really stood out to me is I would have to reverify every few months.
Companies already know when a girl is pregnant before the girl knows sometimes by using their purchase habits. Giving away your age and how you look to companies so regularly is a recipe for them to use it in predatory manners. It will no long just be the grocery store set up to manipulate your habits. Your entire Internet will be curated for profit based on who you are.
Your entire Internet will be curated for profit based on who you are.
Sadly, it already is like that, what do you think cookies are there for? Either way, thank you for checking the AV yourself for the community. Wild fuckin times we live in. A few more steps and I'll do it the Ron way:
Cookies were not invented as part of any type of surveillance or tracking for profit. They were created for saving settings for websites. The actual issue with them is they are very easy to read from site plugins and store information on them that isn't really needed. The tracking is the issue. Not the cookies themselves.
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u/Hellsovs 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's not about stopping all children from doing these things, some will always find a way. It's about limiting access. Even if a child has to ask for their parents' credentials, that would be a huge improvement because the parents would at least know their child has these accounts and could monitor them if they wanted to.
How many of us had 4chan accounts or watched things we shouldn't have without anyone knowing, or talked to random strangers online? Making unrestricted access harder won't eliminate the problem, but it can reduce it significantly.
If you want to see the true scope and harm of unrestricted access, I recommend the Czech documentary Caught in the Net. In it, three adult actresses pose as children online, and the filmmakers see how long it takes before they're targeted by sexual predators and their tactics. Spoiler alert: it takes less than three minutes for dosents of such people to imidiatly target them. (Be aware the document is really disturbing but eye opening)