[hunterpayne]

You do realize that you can just require auths for the kids and not the adults right? It requires a regulatory and hardware solution but its very possible.

PS Also, no solution would ever be perfect. Walls don't deny access, they change traffic patterns. So if it works 99% of the time, its good enough.

[leonvoss]

Because this is for stupid people, it will be done in a stupid way. They aren't interested in cash bought anonymous auth tokens that require you to be over 18 to the store clerk or whatever. In part this is stupidity, in part this panic is also about "pedophilia" so they want to make sure whoever is talking to their daughter who is using a parent authenticated tiktok account gets arrested promptly because he showed his passport as opposed to being there with an untraceable anonymous auth token he bought for $1.99 at a random convenience store.

[hunterpayne]

You don't allow adults on the kids sites. So your theoretical pedo would have to provide ID to get the "kids" hardware. And the "kids" hardware can't go on the normal/adult/anonymous Internet. Done...

For the EU, this has nothing to do with kids.

[leonvoss]

This would require hardware manufacturing. Seems expensive. Locking down hardware is also something I don't want the government getting into. What about poor young suzie who got hit on by a creepy 30 year old briefly after booting linux on an old laptop? Now we have to make everything secure at the firmware level for the "children" etc

[hunterpayne]

Only the "kids" hardware needs this. The adult/anonymous Internet doesn't. That's the whole point.

[leonvoss]

How will you stop 15 year olds from getting non-kids hardware?