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bennyp101 commented on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker
keernan · 4 days ago
Just a heads up:

All four of my daughters prohibit my 7 grandchildren from going anywhere near roblox. My grandchildren are currently ages 2-11 but my daughters are so outraged by what happens there that they say their children will never be allowed on roblox until they move out of the house. Apparently it is extremely predatory, lots of bullying, and highly sexualized - and while children are the site's target audience, the site provides no effective oversight.

bennyp101 · 3 days ago
100% - They are only allowed on certain games, no chat, and I have a couple of private servers so they can do this steal a brain rot thing
bennyp101 commented on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker
michaelmrose · 4 days ago
How do they work find and keep a job keep up with their kids school and keep government benefits.

It doesn't matter that you could do those things before the internet the normal and often only or only practical flow involves the net.

Counter offer we keep letting people manage their own kids' shit and they can control access to the degree they deem appropriate

bennyp101 · 4 days ago
Whilst I do kinda agree, I was just replying to the parent about what the punishment would probably be :)

But the problem is that people are NOT managing their own kids' shit, and now we have to have things put in place to try and counter that - and end up overreaching.

I'm more than happy to educate mine on how to be safe online, and to come and talk to us about stuff, other aren't, or are not aware they need to.

Perhaps buying internet means you have to sign a waiver saying that if anything happens because of the internet then that is on the parent(s)...

bennyp101 commented on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker
SunshineTheCat · 4 days ago
We should then make laws that parents must tell their kids to clean their room. Next we can make laws that parents must tell their children to eat their veggies. What about chore laws? Teeth brushing laws? Stop arguing with your sister laws! More laws!
bennyp101 · 4 days ago
There's a giant difference between stopping kids having full reign on what is now essentially the whole world of information - and instant access to strangers, than there is making sure they eat healthy, help out, and don't have bad teeth .... but I'm sure you know that :)
bennyp101 commented on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker
miguelbemartin · 4 days ago
In my opinion, access to internet should always be behind a device controlled by an adult. And it should be this adult's responsibility to set appropriate restrictions for minors.
bennyp101 · 4 days ago
Yea, I think anyone who grew up at the start of the internet in homes realises just how different it is now, and that teaching your kids about how to be safe online etc is an important part of parenting. But we are at the point where we have some parents who always had access to what it is now, and don't see it as a bad place.

"Stranger Danger" is no longer don't get into a van with someone who promises you sweets kinda thing.

bennyp101 commented on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker
everdrive · 4 days ago
Agreed. My kids are young right now, but I'm wondering if we can just have a shared family room computer like in the 90s. (school-based laptops might thwart this, but maybe by the time they're school-aged people will realize that constantly putting kids in front a screen is a bad thing to do?)
bennyp101 · 4 days ago
Yep, I bought a separate all-in-one computer that is in the living room, in full view of everyone else, so we can keep an eye on what is going on when they are using it.

We also have pi-hole running that blocks a lot of things, and can turn on and off certain domains (so they can play roblox etc for a short while, then its blocked again) and their devices are pretty locked down

bennyp101 commented on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker
Tostino · 4 days ago
What is the punishment you want to give to parents who don't?

That's the implication of making a law.

bennyp101 · 4 days ago
They get blacklisted from being able to have internet
bennyp101 commented on Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network   blog.tymscar.com/posts/im... · Posted by u/tymscar
jsheard · 18 days ago
> but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break.

Tale as old as time, long-running forums are graveyards of dead Photobucket, Tinypic and Imageshack embeds. Imgur has lasted longer than most but the cycle will probably repeat eventually, especially since they were acquired by faceless corpos a few years ago.

bennyp101 · 18 days ago
A service shutting down, or being replaced is very different to one being blocked at a country level because of waves hands things
bennyp101 commented on Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network   blog.tymscar.com/posts/im... · Posted by u/tymscar
bennyp101 · 18 days ago
"Is this overkill for viewing the occasional Imgur image? Probably."

From the last couple of weeks of researching some stuff, it makes perfect sense - I keep stumbling across blogs and documentation that uses Imgur, and it's really quite annoying that I can't see the screenshot or image that is being referenced. It hasn't /quite/ hit the point to put something in place, but this is super helpful for the final straw - when it comes!

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bennyp101 · a month ago
How does OpenRA[0] do it? Is it just a X has expired thing?

Edit: Oh maybe you do have to have the assets now? I swear last time I used it, it was all online :/

[0] https://www.openra.net

bennyp101 commented on UK to announce plans for digital ID scheme   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/c-oreills
bennyp101 · 3 months ago
Ah so /that's/ why Trump was over...

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