EU chief calls for a bloc-wide push on an age verification app to protect children online. If enforced, users will have to prove their age to access legally restricted sites.
I don’t think laws should be enforced at any cost, but if we can reasonably enforce laws I think there is a duty to do so.
Then there is also a different question of whether we agree with the laws on the books, but that is a different matter imo. Personally I don’t think we should limit access to pornography as strictly as the laws says we should, and I don’t think the ills of social media are solved with a simple age limit.
But that is a separate discussion from the implementation of a (in my eyes) reasonable approach to age verification
I don’t think it’s entirely a separate issue, because how a law is enforced is part of evaluating whether it makes sense in practice.
If a law can only be enforced by treating everyone as a minor until proven otherwise, that’s a strong signal that the law, or at least its scope, may be flawed.
I don’t think laws should be enforced at any cost, but if we can reasonably enforce laws I think there is a duty to do so.
Then there is also a different question of whether we agree with the laws on the books, but that is a different matter imo. Personally I don’t think we should limit access to pornography as strictly as the laws says we should, and I don’t think the ills of social media are solved with a simple age limit.
But that is a separate discussion from the implementation of a (in my eyes) reasonable approach to age verification
I don’t think it’s entirely a separate issue, because how a law is enforced is part of evaluating whether it makes sense in practice.
If a law can only be enforced by treating everyone as a minor until proven otherwise, that’s a strong signal that the law, or at least its scope, may be flawed.