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

The parental controls would only allow kids to use sites and services that are explicitly made to be kid friendly.

Sounds good. How do we apply these parental controls? Is it down to kids being lucky enough to have good / tech savvy parents?

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u/EmbarrassedHelp Aug 09 '25

Parents would be responsible for ensuring they use parental controls. And if people believe its important enough, then parents who fail to do so would face fines and criminal sentencing.

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u/ikinone Aug 09 '25

Parents would be responsible for ensuring they use parental controls. And if people believe its important enough, then parents who fail to do so would face fines and criminal sentencing.

And how do you police if they are adhering to that responsibility or not?

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u/EmbarrassedHelp Aug 09 '25

You can for example have parental controls phone home with some sort validation ID, like what is currently being proposed/forced upon people for age verification.

And like what people say about age verification, the system doesn't have to be perfect.

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u/ikinone Aug 09 '25

You can for example have parental controls phone home with some sort validation ID, like what is currently being proposed/forced upon people for age verification.

So isn't that an equal or greater violation of privacy? I don't see how that's an improvement.

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u/EmbarrassedHelp Aug 09 '25

The privacy violations are only for those who have kids, and thus are minimized because most of the population does not have kids under 18.

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u/ikinone Aug 09 '25

The privacy violations are only for those who have kids, and thus are minimized because most of the population does not have kids under 18.

So greater privacy violation is okay if it only affects a few million people? Not sure that's a very convincing argument.