Tell HN: OS-level age indication is the solution
2 pointsby uyzstvqs7 hours ago3 comments
  • apothegm26 minutes ago
    Of course, determining DOB based on when the user graduates age brackets then becomes trivial anyway, if a little slow.
  • gus_massa5 hours ago
    What about another setting for important governmental figures, like president, governor, senators, ... ? It can make a automatic backup for FOIA. If they doing nothing wrong, they have nothing to hide.

    We have a somewhat similar field here in Argentina for credits and other big bank transactions. The idea is to be more carefully with them to cut corruption. It looks good on paper.

  • functionmouse7 hours ago
    I disagree

    This is a regulatory capture attempt by Facezuck and any knee bending to that premise helps him in his evil world domination scheme

    Also, if these billionaires cared about keeping kids safe, some very famous people would be in prison right now.

    • uyzstvqs6 hours ago
      But it doesn't give him anything. We're talking about an offline, private, decentralized, OS-agnostic mechanism here.

      Zuck is no privacy advocate. But users care about privacy, and he most likely cares enough to take action because having to require online age verification will cost him users. If Facebook has to prompt to "upload selfie/ID" or "log in with your government ID app", many users will just choose to quit.

    • jjgreen6 hours ago
      "Look, you've already implemented OS-level age control, you really shouldn't object to adding this government-mandated binary which checks that it's working as intended, it doesn't spy on you or anything, promise"