thanks for the explanation. I misunderstood the statement. makes more sense that it makes fingerprinting harder.

what does that even mean? what aspect is more generic that could be used for fingerprinting?

We definitely have some control over each of those points:

• We don’t let kids drive, the lowest driving age seems to be 15 and is usually 18: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_driving_ages. Kids obv would have access to their parents cars.
• Knives, Guns etc cannot be sold to children and I hope you would agree that this is a good thing.
• having sex shouldn’t be controlled but providing or paying for sex work, “adult” events, sex parties etc definitely should be restricted.
• Legal drugs (alcohol, tobacco, weed) should be restricted for children. Illegal drugs are indeed hard to specifically regulate but e. g. selling illegal substances to a minor should carry a higher sentence.

after typing all that out I wonder what we are even debating. those are obvious examples to me where actual restriction is necessary. and to cycle back to the start, why would media be fundamentally exempt from that?

Thanks for clarifying.

For the record, I think this mechanism is indeed far reaching, simply because the current criterion of “age” is arbitrary in the proposed mechanism.

Not sure if the “just education” part is realistic, though. The whole point is that children cannot make responsible decisions like adults can. We accept that for driving, sex, drugs and weapons.

Not sure that’s necessarily true. I don’t see why it couldn’t work like this:

1. request personal token from authority. it works similar to a certificate chain, your token is derived from a central certificate
2. you store your token locally
3. you visit an age-restricted website. you send your token (or a challenge encrypted with that token) back to the website
4. the website verifies your token with the certificate from the authority, (like how literal Certificate Authorities work) . the CA doesn’t know when or why your token was used.

(fwiw I am sure governments will try their best to make this process less private)

wdym? in general? on the internet?

bc that’s a hard disagree from my side as a blanket statement