| shikamaru317 said: My state, Virginia, was among the first in the US to implement the age verification thing in order to access porn sites a few years back. That I could get behind, making it harder for teens to access porn during their formative years is actually a good thing. But age verification in order to access social features like voice chat on Xbox? That just seems extreme to me. How soft are these people, my generation grew up playing games like Halo with voice chat, and those just a few years younger than me grew up playing the infamous Modern Warfare 2, with it's lobbies full of people hurling racial slurs and death threats. We all turned out fine, we had the ability to separate reality from a video game lobby. Why do they think teens need to be blocked from using voice chat now? |
Teenagers will just use VPNs and the tech illiterate will expose themselves to massive security risks, do you trust the companies who said "Give us you ID and we promise, we don't save any of your data" because I don't. It's only a matter of time before one of these age verification companies suffer a huge data breach and a bunch of peoples names are linked to the porn they watch, blackmail goldmine.
What we should be doing instead is educating parents on parental controls and allowing them more control over what their children are exposed to, websites can be blocked via the ISP and activity can be monitored and also going after the actual corporations who expose children to shitty things, the algorithms of YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, etc. Are all designed towards exposing people to the worst.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 30 July 2025
