How is it “obviously about the kids”? Is it because they mentioned them? I would argue it will impact the kids but this isn’t being done for their benefit, it’s being done to regulate what we have access to as a whole. Slippery slope coming up!

It will apply to everyone once you have to prove you are over 16. Kids are just the excuse.

The way this has been pushed through after countless attempts over the past decade, and push back from advising experts, does not feel like it originates from genuine concern for children. It feels like a state trying to wrestle for digital control amidst rising civil unrest.

Almost anything can be made "about the kids" with the right framing.

Riddle me this. If you have to verify yourself to prove you are over 16, did that just deanonymize you? Yes.

Good job I said this, then:

> The problem is it requires surveillance.

So it's not "obviously about kids" then.

This is like saying "people using cars to get places is really about oil".

if it was about kids they would have mandated parental controls.

not universal account verification.

people are stupid now though, so I guess they took their shot.

How can the system tell if someone's a parent or not.

The system can't. That's the beauty of it.

It's up for the parents to enable it for their kids.

Just mandate that certain parental features are AVAIALABLE to parents.

It's up to the parents to parent their kids. Not the government. But if you want to mandate something, mandate tools for the parents.

But how does the system know that someone's a parent who should be able to access the parental features?

It doesn't need to.

Parents know who they are. THEY force their kids to use a child account with their parental account linked.

The same way every other parental control system works, whether it's Youtube, Netflix, iOS, Xbox, etc.

and why do you get to decide what it "is about"?

I didn't say people couldn't decide what it's about.