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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
One idea put forward is, during set up, for a child's date of birth to be input. This would only make adult sites available from a given age
Various judiciary systems throughout the world have confirmed that social media (and other) sites are responsible for having a duty of care for their users so, even if this measure were adopted, they would still need to make reasonable efforts to protect users.
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a) define an ‘adult site’, yes Pornhub would probably apply, but Readit?
b) Who sets up the device? Is it a child who is given it as a present, who, I’m sure will enter their actual date of birth, or the parent who is firstly technically competent to do it, or is sufficiently tech-savvy to understand this stuff and have had the appropriate ’talks’ with their children.
Now ‘duty of care for their user’, except how can sites possibly know who or how old their users are, and whether or not they need protecting.
Which all circles round to age verification, and how do you do this without forcing everyone to hand over personal information to whoever provided the lowest tender bid - lowest for a good reason.
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