Texas Sues Discord, Seeks Mandatory Age Verification (opens in new tab)

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12 pointsanonymousiam24d ago11 comments

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Bender24d ago· 2 in thread

Age verification does not belong with app stores or OS developers. It belongs with the parents that are already legally obligated to protect their children. There is a simple means to do this [1] and while not perfect it would shift the responsibility back to the parents where it belongs. Texas should push for RTA Restricted To Adults headers on servers and RTA header detection in browsers and applications that speak HTTP(S). Anything that involves sharing a minors details with a corporation regardless of intent is a non starter for me.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270018

ndriscoll24d ago

Tautologically, something restricted to adults does not involve sharing a minor's details with anyone since the entire point is to block access to minors. That said, not all of these laws are about access restrictions per se, so RTA is only a partial solution. In fact, the government doesn't need to mandate any solution; simply mandate that restricted services not be offered to/not behave in certain ways for children and place liability on the people offering the services. They can figure out the best compromise that follows the law while keeping their customers happy.

Bender24d ago

Tautologically, something restricted to adults does not involve sharing a minor's details with anyone since the entire point is to block access to minors.

At some point some company has to know the clients age to block the access, thus RTA is the only solution that potentially does this with the optional assistance of the parent whilst not sharing any data. Anything else will require connections to a 3rd party which is still a non starter even if using using magic math that pinky promises not to be reversible meaning someone can put 2 and 2 together to get the persons identification. People have caught on to the shell games.

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throwfaraway13524d ago

You only need to look at Britain to see how much of a bad idea this is. As for CSAM I don't believe AI can't be used to solve that.

qsxfthnkp232224d ago

As a Texan this is beyond gross.

I will instantly delete my accounts if discord or any service implements this kind of tracking.

There are other ways to protect the children.

anonymousiamOP24d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KyiLyOxux8

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