2026-06-15 10:12 UTC
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@pre@boing.world 2026-06-15 12:32
Sounds like now is a good time to re-up my rant about age-gating from a few months ago. https://dalliance.net/blog/agegate/ A ban can’t help, will make many things worse, won’t address the problem, and will make competing with the worst surveillance capitalists on the planet more difficult. Going to war with every internet site and advice forum and making internet access harder won’t fix anything, and will have massive collateral damage against everyone seeking support from strangers or trying to learn things their parents won’t teach them.
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@inpc@go.mxtthxw.art 2026-06-15 10:17
@pre@boing.world response on local newspaper comments section is interesting. Consensus is "yay this is brilliant, well done UK gov". I just hope I've learned how to successfully bypass ISPs before they shut the whole net down for reasons.
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@beemoh@mastodonapp.uk 2026-06-16 14:39
@pre@boing.world "Sounds like parents are happy because now when their ten year old says "Can I have a phone, can I have instagram?" they apparently feel 'supported by the government' in saying no." 100% of these parents, were they parents 20 years or so ago, would have reacted to a retail assistant refusing to sell an 18-rated videogame to their ten year old iwith "Oh, it's just a videogame, just sell it to them", and then go and blame the shop when it turns out not to be suitable, because the Government/law lets them.