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by tim-tday 12 days ago
Age verification is identity verification. It puts everyone at risk.

Here’s a crazy idea. Parents should parent.

I was over for dinner with a family and their 13yr old daughter was complaining about being “grounded forever” because she snuck access to an iPad and signed up for instagram. Instagram is cancer, but. I still don’t think age verification (at the service and government level) is the answer.