If kids are using VPNs, most of the time it will be because their parents made that decision for them; most aren’t using their parents’ credit cards to buy a VPN subscription to bypass blocks without their parents knowing. Age verification advocates argue that it puts more control in the hands of parents, but in the case of VPNs, taking that control away goes entirely against that argument.
It’s not about giving parents control, or ultimately even about kids at all; people want to impose their personal morals on all of society via governmental enforcement mechanisms. Social media platforms are promoting it because age verification is beneficial to them as a legally-mandated anti-bot mechanism, increasing their advertising revenue by guaranteeing user suitability for advertisers.
Age verification is beneficial to social media because they get their grasping hands on our personal information. They allow bots on their platforms, they only take down the ones the government and the oligarchy tell them to.
If kids are using VPNs, most of the time it will be because their parents made that decision for them; most aren’t using their parents’ credit cards to buy a VPN subscription to bypass blocks without their parents knowing. Age verification advocates argue that it puts more control in the hands of parents, but in the case of VPNs, taking that control away goes entirely against that argument.
It’s not about giving parents control, or ultimately even about kids at all; people want to impose their personal morals on all of society via governmental enforcement mechanisms. Social media platforms are promoting it because age verification is beneficial to them as a legally-mandated anti-bot mechanism, increasing their advertising revenue by guaranteeing user suitability for advertisers.
Age verification is beneficial to social media because they get their grasping hands on our personal information. They allow bots on their platforms, they only take down the ones the government and the oligarchy tell them to.
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