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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why do we need to? What's the risk, some unsupervised kid with neglectful parents might see porn? Oh man, just imagine the world-ending consequences if that happened!

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I was thinking gambling but porn is illegal to buy for under 18-yo in some places so they might use the age gating for that too

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That feels an even sillier concern; what is a child going to do on a gambling site without some adult payment method to access services? And if you say "well they can steal their parent's credit card," how would that not equally apply to a parent's photo ID or anything else necessary for age-verification?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    Where I live a lot of kids have bank accounts, but of course it would be silly to put a lot of money there. But can't you deposit cash into bitcoin things and use them for payments or gift cards? I've seen those on some gambling sites.

    And if you say “well they can steal their parent’s credit card,” how would that not equally apply to a parent’s photo ID or anything else necessary for age-verification?

    Photo ID apparently needs a face scan too, it's not enough to just have the ID. Then you get into what if they steal the ID, fool their parents and whatnot which... I don't think that's as much of a concern tbh

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