The UK is going even further this year by extending age/ID verification to any websites that host anything deemed not "safe for kids". What they all want is a porn/nudity ban in all but name.
Wrong. They want a free speech ban. Ending online anonymity is the endgame. They've just phrased it as a "think of the children" scheme, and people are falling for it.
Especially because they're trying to "prove a negative", which you can only do by proving everything else positive.
The right solution is to mark everything safe for kids "safe for kids". A simple http header "Age-Rating: 12, MPAA(PG-13), BBCF(12A)" listing the ratings categories they are approved for.
Everything kid-aged and marketed to kids like movies, w3schools, etc will get marked and nobody else has to do anything.
Wrong. They want a free speech ban. Ending online anonymity is the endgame. They've just phrased it as a "think of the children" scheme, and people are falling for it.
But only care about one: Control.
Especially because they're trying to "prove a negative", which you can only do by proving everything else positive.
The right solution is to mark everything safe for kids "safe for kids". A simple http header "Age-Rating: 12, MPAA(PG-13), BBCF(12A)" listing the ratings categories they are approved for.
Everything kid-aged and marketed to kids like movies, w3schools, etc will get marked and nobody else has to do anything.