…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?

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 hours ago

    As for groomers on Roblox, this just sounds like https://www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/masnicks-impossibility-theorem-content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-to-do-well/

    I got my first own computer at age 10 and from then on usually browsed the Internet unsupervised.

    I remember that for the first few years of doing so, I took age checks very seriously. A website says “this is an adult website, you must be over 18”? I would click cancel. A forum has a checkbox “I agree to the terms and conditions and am at least 13 years old”? Not registering there (a few years later: wait, I can now honestly say yes to this!).

    This of course changed when I became a teenager, but I knew what I was getting into at that point. I don’t think this is that atypical…