"To enforce it, platforms must age-check their users. In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they're over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial age scan."
> likely
It could, of course, use a double-anonymous system like the French one.
Probably not, but I'd rather that they didn't state their guess as fact in the title.
Which isn't really anonymous or privacy preserving, despite it's funny name : https://broken-by-design.fr/posts/proto-authz-porn/
It's not beyond the wit of humankind to build a working system.
Whatever happened to steel manning? It's supposed to be in the fabric of HN. Curious enquiry.
Is it nice children are exposed to dreadful things? No. Could we, with tech, come up with a way to improve things? Probably! Let's discuss and think about how!
Smart people could apply their skills and build a genuinely useful technology.
But seems they would rather stick their finger in their ears and pretend that it's not happening. And they will be ignored.
WHen did this learned helplessness become so in vogue?
We're not assuming it. We're observing what people are in fact actually deploying.
I hadn't heard of the French double-anonymous system, though. That does sound slightly better.
Token could be signed out-of-band to obscure the interaction between the parties.