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Unpopular opinion, but I’d rather not allow kids on the regular internet.
I’m surprised these issues haven’t been fixed and that the only method I hear about fixing them are ones that break the internet as we know it. Why not think of like some type of sub internet designed for kids that separates them from the chaos of the regular internet…. If I’ve learned on thing living in America it’s that money is wore more than kids or kids futures so it’s hopeless anyway.
Like traffic from a device could be locked down until the users proper age is reached.
Or just try to build better communities where parents take care of their kids.
That just moves the exact same question to a slightly different place. How do you verify someone accessing the real internet is an adult without destroying anonymity and therefore privacy?
Well now parents have a choice, only give their own children access to the KinterNet
Didn't answer the question.
Oh I'm sorry. I should be more clear. You don't. You don't verify people are adults. the capability to verify that is the same capability you need to oppress.
You enable parents to have the right tools to affect what they want for their children. But it's the parent's responsibility to let their kids use cell phones independently without a VPN without internet controls.
It's on the parents to parent their children. If they want to control what their children sees then the parents need to control what the children's devices can do. We can't turn the entire world into Disneyland because a parent doesn't want to deny their child the internet.
This was always the obvious solution to me. It feels like every other year YouTube is jumping through hoops to correct some situation involving children on the platform. Simply make YouTube 18 plus, require an ID upon sign up. Instantly fix everything, except they'd make less money.