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by emayljames 3 days ago
Sigh! Once again they are pushing something they don't understand the impact of.

It sounds great on paper, they can pretend they have done something. The reality is, the overreaching age gating they enforced, resulted in a lot of parents needing to set stuff to adult settings, because like this, the government doesn't have a clue what they are doing
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basisword 3 days ago
>> The reality is, the overreaching age gating they enforced, resulted in a lot of parents needing to set stuff to adult settings, because like this, the government doesn't have a clue what they are doing

Can you explain this more? I’m not sure I understand what parents had to do and why.

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tombot 3 days ago
Regular device accounts now ask you to prove you are 18+ through different processes, mine was enabled based on age of Apple ID.

This is entirely seperate to the family sharing permissions that’s presumably the op is talking about, where I think? They are saying the permissions are not fine grained enough so workarounds are needed.

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