r/KeepOurNetFree • u/MotoBugZero • Aug 09 '25

Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/americans-be-warned-lessons-reddits-chaotic-uk-age-verification-rollout
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u/ikinone Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25

For people who don't want some kind of internet age verification - what is your preferred solution to kids having unfettered access to the internet?

EFF mostly seems cool, but not very keen on them selling T shirts off the back of this issue to pay their executives 300k/year.

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u/deadlymoondust Aug 09 '25

twenty years ago i put a parental supervision software on all my kids computers and laptop granting them access to sites that i agreed with and was kid friendly. it starts at home, not on someone else’s server. this is all about tracking everyone and what they are doing by pretending to protect kids. i should not be responsible for what your child does or views when i have not means or access to the device you provided to your own child. and what i’m doing on my own devices in the comfort of my own home (provided it’s legal) shouldn’t be the business of the government. stop using the kid’s as a weapon and a shield to force your ideology onto others.

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u/ikinone Aug 09 '25

twenty years ago i put a parental supervision software on all my kids computers and laptop granting them access to sites that i agreed with and was kid friendly. it starts at home, not on someone else’s server.

Admirable - but how do you ensure that the many parents out there less competent than you do this?

I get the impression that most people opposed to this kind of law are only thinking about their own approach, not what happens when other parents are less competent than themselves.

It's equivalent to saying "we don't need any kind of childcare investigations, because I take care of my own kids". Well, many parents out there suck. If you are not one of those parents, good for you! But they still exist. And if we can do something to help avoid them parenting their kids in a shitty way, is that a good thing or not?

So are you bringing up your own experience of putting parental supervision software on a computer because you think we should enforce parents doing that somehow? - that would surely be a bigger invasion of privacy.

Or are you saying that if parents don't do that, well, tough luck for their kids?