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by AnthonyMouse 111 days ago
> your neighbors simply don't share your values

The problem with this argument is that everyone agrees with protecting children.

"Think of the children" arguments are the legislator's fallacy: Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do this.

In reality there are alternative means to accomplish any given goal, and the debate is about what should be done, because no one benefits from using methods that cost more than they're worth.

Well, almost no one. The opportunists who drape themselves in the cloak of "safety" when they want to have the government mandate the use of their services or use it as an excuse to monopolize markets or establish a chokepoint for surveillance and censorship do benefit from the machinations that allow them to screw the majority of the population. But the majority of the population doesn't.
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gzread 111 days ago
There's fake protecting children and there's real protecting children. The Colorado and California parental controls API laws (not age verification laws, there is no age verification in these laws) are clearly "real protecting children" since all they do is mandate standardisation of a parental controls API on each OS.

We kept saying parental controls are all that's really needed, these states said "ok then, do parental controls" and we're still complaining.

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pluralmonad 111 days ago
If there is such widespread demand for such mechanisms as some comments suggest, why did it take coercion through law making to bring it to market?
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gzread 110 days ago
Because manufacturers don't want it because it reduces their revenue?
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nottorp 111 days ago
Who's we? I personally taught my kid to lie about their age so they don't get silly censorship on the internet.
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gzread 110 days ago
Good, if that's what you want for your kids, then don't set them up with a child restricted account. It's completely up to you.
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nicman23 111 days ago
nah let them die i tell you
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