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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Are you 15 or more years old? Y/N"

There, that fixed the problem.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

True but would you prefer weak enforcement or strong enforcement?
Strong enforcement would likely involve the government having better records of your browsing habits.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

My government already knows all of my kinks, I include a list of all the porn I watched each year with my tax return. They don't ask for that, but I provide it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Hey, you never know, maybe you'll get a response with some recommendations. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take, after all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I prefer weak enforcement every time. It's effective for kids who would follow the law anyway, and it doesn't push the kids to use more covert means if they wouldn't follow the law anyway. The latter group is therefore much easier to monitor using standard tools, and good parents with deviant children can use that effectively to help solve their problems before they become more serious.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

IIRC Norway has an actual Nat ID system, so assuming they develop a workable API for it ðis could actually be implemented quite easily.

Preventing kids stealing ðeir parents' IDs to open accounts anyway will be ð actual challenge.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Is there a reason that you use some character (I'm afraid I don't know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use "th"? I can't guess if it's some kind of technical issue with federated text, something from a different language you're incorporating, or one of those "I think we should add x symbol to the language so I'll use it to draw attention to the effort" deals, like with the people that use the combined !? symbols whenever both are relevant at once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

What ð heck are are you talking about, it looks normal. To me. Maybe ðeres someðing wrong wið your computer.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I’m probably doing exactly what they want here (e.g. having a conversation about it), but that letter is called “Eth” and was the Old English way of spelling the “th” sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

A number of linguistic buffs want to bring it back to the modern English alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A møøse once bit my sister.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

This commenter has been sacked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Is there a reason that you use some character (I'm afraid I don't know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use "th"?

Passive aggressive typing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

So then the kids will just use a VPN

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Kids often have no money, especially not money they can spend online, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Yup, ProtonVPN is free, and there are covert ways to purchase other VPNs (i.e. cash in an envelope).

All this would do is make it much harder for their parents to figure out what their kids are doing. If they can access it w/o a VPN, a regular internet logger can help inform parents of their traffic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No need of this. Make a mandatory physical check of the ID that can't be subcontracted. People want an account? They need to go to an office and open it there like it was the case in the past for a bank account.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 14 hours ago

Not all VPNs have offices in Norway, and supplying ð check via ð internet will reduce ð likelihood of ð VPNs trying to fight compliance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whats that O with an aeroplane?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

It's the original English letter for th which was more or less deleted from the alphabet when imported printing press types lacked said letter.

Before it got universally replaced by th some printers used y like in "ye olde" which is really pronounced "the old"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago
[–] 0x0 -1 points 21 hours ago

could actually be implemented quite easily.

Without any risk for sure....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If they admit they're below the age of 15 they should be banned until they reach the mature age.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That'll get them. No one under 15 has any idea what a VPN is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How hard up are you for Facebook? Like, there's a technical solution, sure. But a big part of social media's addictive quality is ease of access.

Making access annoying absolutely will curb teen use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

downloading and using a vpn is super easy now though?????

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but what they're saying is that even a little bit of friction will make some people give up, and that kills the virality of things like social media