[glenngillen]

My 12yo son is already significantly taller than me! We had to use his passport to prove he’s much younger than these systems report because they were locking him out from chatting to his friends (said the age gap was too big)

[antiframe]

Wait, am I understanding correctly: for your child to chat with their friends you had you send a copy of their passport to a stranger in the Internet because "a system" thought they were older looking that their friends?

What are we doing even?

[mschuster91]

> What are we doing even?

We forced parents to both work 40 hours and more including commutes and mandatory overtime, which led to an insane demand to have "safe spaces" for children where they do not need a parent.

[glenngillen]

yeah :( I'm definitely not in the pro "kids need to be protected from the internet/social media/whatever" camp as I'd much rather teach my kids to make smart decisions and manage it ourselves vs the government mandated solution we now have. The way it's implemented though means services (Roblox in this case) have to verify the age of the child. Those kids can only talk to other kids that are +/- some range from their own age. So it was either let him continue playing as though he's a 16yo but not actually be able to play with any of his friends, or use the identity verification provider they have to prove he's not. The whole thing is a gross mess imo.

[MyHonestOpinon]

How do they know how tall he was ? Oh perhaps his face looks older too ?

[glenngillen]

yeah, his face looks older too I guess. Was mostly calling out that height isn't going to necessarily help either.