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I mean.. there's nothing stopping anyone from setting their age to 100 years old. It's not like they are adding any sort of identification check, from what I gather. Just doing the minimum to comply.
Yeah, once everyone gets comfortable with being asked their age, then it'll go to requiring a 'realistic' age instead of accepting someone born 1/1/1900, then it'll move to requiring proof of your age
Imho, that's a slippery slope argument. Like arguing that communities should have no moderation at all (not even when it's fair) because it opens the door for unfair moderation too...
One might as well argue a slippery slope in the opposite direction, the more you reject parental-control methods that you can control, the more incentive they'll have to instead promote methods where you'll have no control. So you can equally say that rejecting this method will make their case stronger for proposals that would, progressively, give you less and less capacity for control (or in particular, capacity to actively be disobedient against).
Sure it's a slippery slope, but it's also exactly how corporations and governments have been behaving and there's hundreds of examples of it. You're being intentionally dense if you don't believe that.
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