Thatâs great! All new users from countries not affected by this will be pleased that the forums they want to register with in future will first want to receive copies of their ID cards and passports so that the forums can then check the authenticity of the documents sent to them with their registration authorities. All just to prove that they are not meant and affected at all, as they live in unregulated nations.
In principle, I have no problem with the kids as long as they behave themselves here, and since they are no different from adults when it comes to behavior, there are such and such, I would find it a shame to have to exclude them.
But if it turns out that the forum would be endangered if we didnât exclude them, then I would be forced to accept it for the continued existence of KA.
While I believe that KA is not the target to be hit/achieved because of the type of information offered here and the way we interact with each other, it worries me that forums like us would be accepted as collateral damage if we were to be shot down by the âheavy artilleryâ directed against Facebook, TikTok and co.
However, I also wonder how Google/YouTube, all the meta offshoots, X & the like are going to validate this? Or how small sites like us could guarantee this?
This practically means the end for all small forums, as they lack the means to guarantee a legally valid age check, including access control. We can only hope for a clause that spares small forums like ours.
Furthermore, we canât be sure that the newly registered user isnât using a proxy or VPN to disguise their country of origin.
This could only work, if at all, if the countries that introduce something like this provide those who are supposed to enforce it with the means to carry out a check against the database of the respective nation. That would be utopian! 1984 becomes reality.
In addition, these countries would have to technically ensure that their inhabitants could neither use proxies nor VPNs, because otherwise it would be (almost?) impossible for the âsocial mediaâ that are supposed to regulate access to firstly locate the users and secondly then check their age in a legally secure manner and sort out those who are too young to be blocked.
So, as an essence out of the above, if enforced I had to accept it, but I do not like it. And I can not see how we should guarantee that everything is okay, and the users are who they claim to be, if the countries that implement these laws do not provide the whole world with the means to enforce their laws for the countries.
They want to turn us into cheap vicarious agents of their surveillance state fantasies. And in all of this, I do not deny that I do not approve of the unrestrained consumption of this social media by children and young people who lack any experience in dealing with it. But in my opinion, it is the task of parents and guardians, who are abdicating their responsibility towards their children, to educate their offspring instead of using this digital Valium (cell phone) to turn them into (loosely based on the motto: give the child a cell phone, then it will be busy, and we parents will have our peace!), dangerous addicts for society, who are not able to classify what they are consuming, because nobody discusses what they see with them. The kids just blindly believe the content that sells them the best (whoever presents them with the best lies is often the most viewed content provider), without the content being the best, which tends to be garbage.
In fact, future parents should be required to take a test in order to be allowed to father children. Only those who can prove their maturity and ability to raise and care for them should be granted permission. Of course, this is now exaggerated beyond measure, as is this encroachment on the right to raise oneâs own offspring or let them go to waste.
If we must restrict to save the forum, I would accept it. But I can not say that I like the idea, this is so beyond measure.
Everyone is under massive threat because Zuckerberg and his cronies canât get enough money into their coffers, regardless of the price. Now even the fact-checkers are being abolished so that nobody exposes a lie as a lie, as it is the most mendacious story that bring them the most clicks and therefore the most money. Great!
Michelist
Is 16+ restriction not effective in this case?