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I am so tired of everyone assuming the worst possible implementation of age verification.

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!

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This.

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?

> I am so tired of everyone assuming the worst possible implementation of age verification.

We're not assuming it. We're observing what people are in fact actually deploying.

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