…so why are people so up in arms against bans and restrictions on children having access to social media, where they have even less oversight and can do so themselves?

  • Dookieman12@piefed.social
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    12 hours ago

    Age verification doesn’t have to mean identity verification.

    Parents and human moderators solved this problem just fine. Everything changed when every platform wanted to be the first to cut moderation costs by using LLMs instead.

    They abandoned a perfectly working system and have been pitching a fit about restarting it because “it costs too much” ever since.

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      11 hours ago

      I’ll grant it’s an automation issue. Age verification is always identity verification when it’s automated. It doesn’t matter how much you try to scrub the data. If it has to be done algorithmically, there’s no possible circumstance where an unaccountable third party should have that data.