10mo ago

Platforms, not parents, to be responsible for social media age limit, but penalties as yet undecided - ABC News

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This is just a backdoor way to tie real names to online accounts.

Someone think of the children! /s

So, show me a photo of your driver's licence to prove you aren't one.

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- Hello,Mr Void Sample Only Sample!
  It's an unusual name, but I like it!
Let's all ban steaks because children might choke on them for not knowing how to properly cut them!!!¡!!!!
Jesus fucking Christ. Just pay attention to your goddamn children and talk to them. Listen to them. They are no one else's but your own. And if you didn't want to care for them, you shouldn't have had them. And if it was a mistake, abort or adopt them out.
They are neither slaves nor toys. They are just little humans that want to learn and grow up to be big humans. Teach them.
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I think this is a real threat to up-and-coming social networks.
Data miners are claiming that increased privacy/sscurity controls on computer platforms are hamstringing their social graph development, but the legal liability of user identity verification is going to be the much bigger problem.
Maybe the computer platform developers need to introduce some sort of anonymised age/identify verification API so that they take the liability. They are the ones with the intimate relationship with the user, and are claiming to protect the users privacy.
- threat to up-and-coming social networks
  This is the serious danger. The established guys welcome legislation, especially if it's onerous to comply with but doesn't actually affect the bottom line too much. That essentially locks in the likes of Facebook and Google and ByteDance who can easily afford to comply, while making it harder for smaller social networks to compete.
  Maybe the computer platform developers need to introduce some sort of anonymised age/identify verification API
  Interesting. If it were a setting locked behind a parental control password, that might make it much harder for kids to lie about, which is an interesting idea. I had previously suggested that, in the vein of the UK's earlier-proposed "go to the pub to get age verified", we could have the government themselves do the age verification, but do it with blinded digital signatures to preserve anonymity of the user from the government—the government would know that you have an age verified token, but not where you used it.
  But I quite like this idea of building it in to the platform itself, instead. The user's device would, when parental controls set up the user's age, created a signed token verifying the age using a signing key which is itself signed by three platform vendor. Or, alternatively, they could at that point in time send an API request to the platform vendor to sign their age verification token (blinded), which the device would send (unblinded) along with any account creation requests, or at some other stage when age verification is necessary.
Oopsie-woopsie, we had a data breach, now every user's identity documents have been harvested by russian hackers.
What if there were some way for you to not be in Australia?
idk, maybe like some sort of network by proxy, or maybe a 'virtual' network that was private?
As it should be everywhere. I'm tired of the internet being the world's daycare.
- This is just a way for them to get your personal information while browsing the Internet
  
  Damn, I actually read this wrong. I thought it said parents are responsible, not corporations. Sucks.
- Most of the Internet denizens who identify as juvenile (or act in a juvenile manner) are actually legal adults. Meanwhile, legal children who are in difficult situations may not have access to the support they need.
  I believe that legislating when someone is considered mature does not account for the outliers who are the ones who would benefit most from access, or having their access restricted.

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