Technology

If it's from Louisiana, it's probably a bad idea. Except for gumbo.

Who fucking cares about porn?

I'm a teen and I second this opinion.

1- It has been proven time and time again how social media has done more harm than good to teenagers.

2- I’m only talking about about platforms owned by the big corporations, platforms here on the Fediverse are (from my perspective) much more safer (in the sense that you don’t really see harmful content if you don’t want to).

1. Where has it been proven that its done more harm than good? Have studies been done to actually explore what 'good' it has allowed, or is the litmus test for it only about what harm may have been affected on teenagers? Whats your basis for this claim?

2. The Fediverse is equally unsafe if you consider your take in an objective manner rather than just play on what you feel moment to moment.

3. What's your take on 4chan?

Something like, you can register at 16 with your parent’s permission

Point is - how do you prove the person is of the "right" age noninvasively? Not like the mainstream social media platforms were already friendly to anonymity, but all the methods I can think of are on a whole another level.

Why?

I would usually agree with this statement, but the truth is that social media does way more harm than good when it comes to teenagers.

Yeah Louisiana implemented a government portal that does exactly what you claim through the driver's license app. Their database was hacked a little under a year ago with basically all private citizen information stolen.

If you set up a system to use these mechanisms the data WILL BE stolen or mishandled.

This idea scares me as well. State would have it so much easier to track what adult content you are visiting. Not a fan, even though I personally only do pretty tame stuff.

You dont have e-ID features? Wild..
Just last semester i learned how they are implemented and which protections they have in place to preserve privacy like specific identifiers
So a certain terminal can only get certain information e.g. over 18? yes/no
Our cigarett dispensers use this feature (those without a person to check)

for fuck's sake why does this get upvotes here

For teenage me the Internet was the only escape from the horribleness and stress of my offline life. Probably for many current teenagers too (if you are one of them: trust me, life will get better as an adult). There is no way I will ever support "keeping children off the Internet" and not just because it requires adults too to verify their age, also because it is a bad idea in the first place. Teenagers might not always make great decisions about everything, but this is also true of adults.

You were negative 15? You were still nutrients in the soil thay made the food your parents ate to make you?

YouTube in the UK already refuses to show some videos if their data gathering & marketing system didn't know enough about you to guess your age.