Nine months in, the only thing anyone has counted is accounts, and accounts aren’t kids. Australia’s regulator found platforms letting under-16s retry the age check until they passed. France voted a similar ban this summer and its Constitutional Council struck it down: to check the kids you have to check everyone, and the law had no privacy guarantees for the adults. Meanwhile the two big US reviews of the evidence disagree on whether social media causes harm at all.
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- Obituarykidney@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
The age verification shit is so bad that even adults will be locked out of using shit if you can’t try again.
The whole policy is both stupid and poorly implemented. The government should have supplied us with a way to verify our age through official means, and a way for the company to confirm it without us giving a hundred different third parties our facial scan or government ID. We already have the myID app which is used to verify our identity for government services. But no, we’d rather set up honey pots for data breaches. Many of which have already happened.
I tried to browse a sale on epic Games last week and ran into age verification just trying to look at games in the store. I guess ignoring the fact that I already have R18 games installed. Tried to upload ID and it kept saying there was an issue. No explanation or anything I can do to fix. I’m 32 for fuck sake.
Tried to contact support and ended up with a fucking llm which told me I needed to clear my cache and restart my computer. Had the nerve to say “you don’t need to wait for a support member to reply” when I told it to connect me to a human. After swearing at it, it finally put through an email for me. The reply was in broken English with zero punctuation or grammar. Didn’t bother replying and just decided that was the last time I touch epic games.
But regardless, VPNs still work to get around it with minimal trouble for me. It’s just dumb all around.
- fdnomad@programming.devEnglish1 day
I activated a new sim card the other day and the ID verification was so shit