This is unacceptable. And I’m sick of all the fucking workarounds to maintain basic privacy.

  • Currently, the age requirement is attestation. You click through an age gate.

    So essentially its the same as most social media, which currently requires you are over 13. Kids have long learned to lie about their age to set up social media accounts.

    Laws may get passed to require an ID check or confirmation, but at that point that’ll require telling the device (and its corporate masters) your identity and I think that’s going to interact with privacy rights.

    I learned in the USENET days to adopt a handle, to keep my meat identity separate from my online identity. We’re going to have to learn that again.