No, it’s not. It’s a malicious goal with good branding. It’s not about protecting the children. It’s about massively invading our privacy, identifying verifiably human data, and laying the groundwork to tie all our online activity to our real identities.
I was referring to the many people who support the idea, who are individuals with a whole set of motives, some of them no doubt malicious and sinister and others who sincerely (even if cluelessly) have the of protecting their children from evil, exactly as you personally have the goal of protecting everybody from the evil you personally see.
The whole idea of age verification at the OS level is a foolish means to a well-intended goal.
No, it’s not. It’s a malicious goal with good branding. It’s not about protecting the children. It’s about massively invading our privacy, identifying verifiably human data, and laying the groundwork to tie all our online activity to our real identities.
I was referring to the many people who support the idea, who are individuals with a whole set of motives, some of them no doubt malicious and sinister and others who sincerely (even if cluelessly) have the of protecting their children from evil, exactly as you personally have the goal of protecting everybody from the evil you personally see.