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Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks (www.internetmatters.org)
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[–] DireTech@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The hell are you talking about? Yes there are blocklists for adult domains, but that doesn’t actually block adult content since it leaves stuff like YouTube open. If you think there isn’t full on sex on there then you’ll be surprised.

The only thing that functions right now is whitelisting and it is super annoying since so many apps open a web container inside the app. All this id verification is nonsense, but providing an actually filtered internet is still nigh impossible for parents who aren’t tech savvy.

[–] SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Pretty easy solution to that, don't let your kid have access to youtube without observing what they are watching. If a parent isn't willing to learn how to setup parental controls and/or web filtering and take the time to observe what their child is consuming then it shouldn't be shoved onto the government and made a problem for everyone else.