Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …
It sounds like a terrible idea. You should talk to Google about it.
Did you know they make you have an account and then tie that account to literally everything else you’ve ever done?
Youtube may be the one place where age verification is actually practical with zero additional effort. They probably have a very good guess for every user on the platform from Google’s account history alone, not to mention they probably have some payment method associated to a whole bunch of accounts already.
I approve of this if only for the dramatic irony of the whole thing.
It sounds like a terrible idea. You should talk to Google about it.
Did you know they make you have an account and then tie that account to literally everything else you’ve ever done?
Youtube may be the one place where age verification is actually practical with zero additional effort. They probably have a very good guess for every user on the platform from Google’s account history alone, not to mention they probably have some payment method associated to a whole bunch of accounts already.
I approve of this if only for the dramatic irony of the whole thing.