There’s a political movement that gained steam in the EU to make social media companies responsible for the content they deliver.
This would have meant they’d have to implement robust age verification on their platforms to comply with EU youth protection laws (including fines per child that could access unsuitable content).
So they lobbied for delegating the age verification to the OS level instead.
That way they can continue to push harmful, addictive slop to children without being legally responsible.
They can just say “we check the age provided by the OS”.
There’s a political movement that gained steam in the EU to make social media companies responsible for the content they deliver.
Which make sense since the same social media companies want the right to moderate what they want.
What happen is that the social media companies on one hand say “the network is ours, so we can remove what we don’t want” and on the other hand say “we are not responsible for what the user write” but you cannot have both.
This would have meant they’d have to implement robust age verification on their platforms to comply with EU youth protection laws (including fines per child that could access unsuitable content).
Or simply say “look we are not touching anything is published, we are a medium. That content is illegal ? Fine, here the data we have to identify the user and if a judge say so, we will remove it since it is illegal”. Nobody think to accuse or fine a telephone company because a pedo uses a their network to commit crimes.
So they lobbied for delegating the age verification to the OS level instead.
That way they can continue to push harmful, addictive slop to children without being legally responsible.
They can just say “we check the age provided by the OS”.
Maybe, but if the OS say that the user is a minor and they show the content anyway they are responsible.
Age Verification should be handled by the OS, otherwise they all will implement their own verification system which would be a nightmare for privacy. Every single implementation would need to verify you as a person before it can tell if you are the right age.
1 single implementation that sends nothing more than a yes or no when asked if the user is old enough is much better for privacy.
With verification on service level, I can simply not use that service if their implementation isn’t privacy-oriented.
Or skip the verification if I don’t need to access adult content.
With government-mandated verification on the OS level, I have no choice.
I have to provide my ID just to use my computer online.
There’s a political movement that gained steam in the EU to make social media companies responsible for the content they deliver.
This would have meant they’d have to implement robust age verification on their platforms to comply with EU youth protection laws (including fines per child that could access unsuitable content).
So they lobbied for delegating the age verification to the OS level instead.
That way they can continue to push harmful, addictive slop to children without being legally responsible.
They can just say “we check the age provided by the OS”.
Which make sense since the same social media companies want the right to moderate what they want.
What happen is that the social media companies on one hand say “the network is ours, so we can remove what we don’t want” and on the other hand say “we are not responsible for what the user write” but you cannot have both.
Or simply say “look we are not touching anything is published, we are a medium. That content is illegal ? Fine, here the data we have to identify the user and if a judge say so, we will remove it since it is illegal”. Nobody think to accuse or fine a telephone company because a pedo uses a their network to commit crimes.
Maybe, but if the OS say that the user is a minor and they show the content anyway they are responsible.
What? No.
Age Verification should be handled by the OS, otherwise they all will implement their own verification system which would be a nightmare for privacy. Every single implementation would need to verify you as a person before it can tell if you are the right age.
1 single implementation that sends nothing more than a yes or no when asked if the user is old enough is much better for privacy.
With verification on service level, I can simply not use that service if their implementation isn’t privacy-oriented.
Or skip the verification if I don’t need to access adult content.
With government-mandated verification on the OS level, I have no choice.
I have to provide my ID just to use my computer online.
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