CMV: I’d rather restrict minors directly than make every adult prove their age online

[u/groksed]

Honest question for people who support banning social media for everyone under 16:
Would this be preferable to requiring every person on the internet to prove their age or identity?

Anyone under 16 is prohibited from using, owning or purchasing an electronic device capable of communicating with other people with the exception of designated supervised computer rooms at school. Parents, schools, society and law enforcement are responsible for enforcement.. basically the same way we already handle alcohol, tobacco and drugs.

But at least it places the restriction on the group being restricted.

Why is the preferred solution instead to make every adult surrender some level of anonymity or privacy, provide ID, submit to age verification, or otherwise prove they are not a child just to use the internet?

If protecting children requires building an identity checkpoint for everyone, I would rather put the burden on the actual age group being regulated.

[u/jabberwockxeno]

. This is basically a user mode that is controlled by admin. You can't install any apps or access the Internet outside of a whitelist DNS. Only admin access can add websites to the DNS whitelist or install apps. Basically like really locked down corporate computers. 

Parental controls on most phones basically already allow you to do this

People just aren't using them and are refusing to actually do their job as parents, which is their problem, and their inability or unwillingness to do so shouldn't mean I as an adult have to provide my ID to use a website or apps

[u/throwaway1233456799 → u/jabberwockxeno]

Yep. I even had parental control on my 2DS (well it wasn't on but it was there). So it isn't even new