Sen. Hawley Wants To Create Legal Age To Be Allowed on Social Media

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France is looking at some measures to restrict porn... so it seems there are viable measures we can take to make accessing various content less convenient.

France moves to block access to pornography sites for minors

France will present this week a digital-certification mechanism to oblige pornography websites to effectively control the age of viewers on their sites from September, French digital minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

PARIS, Feb 6 (Reuters) - France will present this week a digital-certification mechanism to oblige pornography websites to effectively control the age of viewers on their sites from September, French digital minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday.

People who want to visit these websites will have to install an application for government-licensed digital certification on their mobile phones to prove that they are at least 18 years old. Sites which do not comply will risk being banned from publishing in France.

Online age verification: balancing privacy and the protection of minors

Online age verification: a complex issue with significant privacy risks Verifying the age of an Internet user is hampered by the difficulty for the various technical stakeholders on the Internet to really know who is the person behind the computer or smartphone. This need to identify Internet...

www.cnil.fr

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An inevitably imperfect verification​

With regard to the devices currently available on the market, the CNIL would first like to stress that the effectiveness of age verification tools depends on the operating rules of the Internet, which is designed as an open network, freely accessible to site users and publishers. While this finding should not prevent the pursuit of the legitimate objectives of protecting minors, care should also be taken to preserve the many benefits linked to this open model (innovation, freedom of expression, user autonomy, etc.). The move towards a closed digital world, where individuals are encouraged to register mainly in authenticated universes (via the creation of user accounts) to avoid a multiplication of identity or identity attribute verifications (age, address, diplomas, etc.) presents significant risks for the rights and freedoms of individuals, which need to be taken into account.

At present, all the solutions proposed can easily be circumvented. Indeed, the use of a simple VPN locating the Internet user in a country that does not require an age verification of this order can allow a minor to bypass an age verification system applied in France, or to bypass the blocking of a website that does not comply with its legal obligations. Similarly, it is difficult to certify that the person using a proof of age is the one who obtained it.

For example, in the UK, where such measures have long been considered, 23% of minors say they can bypass blocking measures and some pornographic content publishers already offer VPN services.

If the use of VPNs must be subject to a certain vigilance, it should be stressed that such technologies are also one of the essential building blocks of the security of exchanges on the Internet, used by many companies, but also by individuals wishing to protect their browsing from the tracking conducted by public or private stakeholders.

 

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We don't need government to regulate everything

Cant argue with that.

 

[DEAD7]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/cdc-more-teenage-girls-have-been-contemplating-suicide-than-in-previous-years.961063/

...we should try to do something.

 

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https://www.thecoli.com/threads/cdc-more-teenage-girls-have-been-contemplating-suicide-than-in-previous-years.961063/

...we should try to do something.

Sexual attacks and other traumatic experiences have led to an unprecedented level of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts among America's young women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.

"Our teenage girls are suffering through an overwhelming wave of violence and trauma, and it’s affecting their mental health," said Kathleen Ethier, director of the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health.

yes this should be addressed but i'm not sure how it relates to the thread topic.

 

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https://www.thecoli.com/threads/cdc-more-teenage-girls-have-been-contemplating-suicide-than-in-previous-years.961063/

...we should try to do something.

It's strange that someone so philosphically sensitive to government overreach supports government intervention in some of the most personal actions people might take, such as carrying babies to full term and even whether or not they use social media. Curious

 

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This is to keep his constituents out of future legal repercussions


....Matt Gaetz..We're looking at you. Giggity

 

[DEAD7]

It's strange that someone so philosphically sensitive to government overreach supports government intervention in some of the most personal actions people might take, such as carrying babies to full term and even whether or not they use social media. Curious

...we should treat social media like other drugs or even driving require a min age or license.
Throwing out hands up and doing nothing seems irresponsible.


Conversely... it's strange (and refreshing) to hear liberals opposed to regulation of the web/social media platforms

 

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...we should treat social media like other drugs or even driving require a min age or license.
Throwing out hands up and doing nothing seems irresponsible.


Conversely... it's strange (and refreshing) to hear liberals opposed to regulation of the web/social media platforms

We gonna ban books next?

 

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...we should treat social media like other drugs or even driving require a min age or license.
Throwing out hands up and doing nothing seems irresponsible.


Conversely... it's strange (and refreshing) to hear liberals opposed to regulation of the web/social media platforms

social media can be "regulated" without deanonymizing adults.

contextualizing posts like twitters community notes or using machine learning to reduce or eliminate adults topics from trending lists of underage users. these companies already profiled users and can easily determine whose a kid or not just by the topics they're interested in, who they follow, grade level of the content they read and write, and the people they respond to.