• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    Good.

    OS level age gating is the best possible solution. It means a parent can simply set an OS level account as a child’s and that’s it. No IDs, no verification process.

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      12 days ago

      Then the simple and least absurd answer is to make it optional for the client and mandatory for the server to respect it if it’s there.

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        11 days ago

        Yeah, if its done in the form of optional parental controls I would be totally fine with some kind of OS level child flag that things can check.

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      12 days ago

      I don’t believe for a minute that this will be a ‘give us a rough age at setup’ situation. That would be entirely too sane, and place responsibility on the parents to do anything.

      Microsoft is going to want your SSN and full facial scan “to protect the children”.

      • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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        11 days ago

        K, keeps being scared of stuff you make up in your head and watch nothing ever happen.