Life finds a way

[pedro_mateus@mas.to]

@vowe

Time to add age verification to the sale of sharpies!

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@vowe It was never about #ageverification!

It was about government having become impotent to regulate big tech. It was about the #neoliberal #ideology having invaded every nook & cranny of our lives. Even children have to serve the interests of shareholders in #BigTech companies, who won’t be held accountable for making their products safe for children.

Instead we hand over what remains of our #privacy to generate even more money & power for shareholders, disguised as care.. 🤮

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@vowe Just a third? Those are rookie numbers.

[nf3xn@mastodon.social]

@gimulnautti @vowe So I had a thought and wondered what if I refused age verification? "Cannot access this site? Ok then."

Could my internet experience actually improve?

Or will the fascists still manage to inject MASS DEPORTATIONS narratives in front of our kids?

Who is going to hold these sites to account if they have verified age but still publish things that kids ought not see?

[gyroplast@furry.engineer]

@vowe

Next up, three kids stacked in a trenchcoat, and Groucho glasses are making a comeback?

Poor satirists, getting sidelined hard by reality every day.

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@mynameistillian @vowe This timeline is tragicomic.

[thefish@mastodon.social]

@vowe Image you build an million euro software and children hack you with a pencil

[sassinake@mastodon.social]

@vowe

So, girls, paint a few streaks of hair, white, or draw some wrinkles.

[leonardof@bertha.social]

@vowe I'm shocked it worked

[jibel@ruhr.social]

@vowe this is illegal! some one ban pens - we cant have this kind of criminals around the internet

[sassinake@mastodon.social]

@vowe

you just know 'labour' will use this information to round up 'illegals' if they get in power (by election or corruption)

[gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@vowe I knew someone who had a beard at 15, never got asked for ID when buying alcohol.

[walrus@toot.wales]

@riggbeck @vowe

Same here! Such an elegant, simple solution to such a stupid problem.

[opoponax@mastodon.social]

@vowe if a cosmetic pencil is all it takes to bypass the process, then can't be a good process to start with. Also reminds me of how kids used Google Docs to bypass social media restrictions and secretly message their friends. Kids will always find cleverly simple workarounds

[terribletowelie@mastodon.social]

@vowe when i was 14 i had a goatee, the drinking age was 18 so i bypassed age verification back in the 80s, nothing new....

[ticho@mas.to]

@vowe I can't believe it's not TheOnion!

[martinrocket@mastodon.social]

@vowe that checks out: certainly, the verification uses AI, and if it is trained on data, where a specific feature (lets say, a moustache) is linked to a specific age category, the AI will detect it as that age...

[old_angry_queer@girlcock.club]

@Sassinake idk mustache sounds easier even still

@vowe

[furrybeta@shark.community]

@vowe The kids are all right

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@vowe

Haha! Sure does, always!