Even if there was some secure, hardened way of verifying people’s ages without handing over PII to random websites, these age verification laws are still utterly ridiculous.
It’s not the government’s job to parent your kids on the internet. If you don’t want your kids visiting specific websites or viewing specific content, you take 15 minutes out of your goddamn day to do your job as a parent, and set up a content blocker on your home network.
Even if there was some secure, hardened way of verifying people’s ages without handing over PII to random websites, these age verification laws are still utterly ridiculous.
It’s not the government’s job to parent your kids on the internet. If you don’t want your kids visiting specific websites or viewing specific content, you take 15 minutes out of your goddamn day to do your job as a parent, and set up a content blocker on your home network.
Can’t you just use a VPN to get past a content block? Sounds exactly like a project a 14 year old me would research
Teaching the youth to protect their Internet identity feels like a win.
How’d you get your user name like that?
You can update your display name on your instance website.
So China is actually based?
Perhaps, but most of the good ones are paid, and I would try to set up some way to monitor the internet traffic if I really wanted to go that far.
I self-host on a VPS, but also spoof the client hello of another website so it looks like I’m accessing yahoo.com or something
You would have to actually reverse lookup each IP to realize “hey, that’s not a yahoo.com IP”
Or, I don’t know, talk to your kid?
Like the average person has a clue how to configure a content blocker. LOL