We got government run id checking services already where it calls an api, I put my details in then the government tells the site the result, but not everyone has suitable id.

I agree with you. We are losing our privacy "because of the children"

My point is that there are websites that shouldn't be visited by a 10yo. And that's enterely on their parents. You shouldn't let your child browse the internet completely unsupervised if you don't even bother on setting some filters for their own safety.

Certainly, allowing your kids to browse all the internet, including cesspools such as reddit, facebook and twitter unwatched is a great way of parenting!

If only we had things such as parental controls on these devices and filters to block harmful sites... But alas, none of that exist, so we have to rely on a nanny state.

I don't want it because I want to expose my kid to things early and gradually. My kid as had a tablet since 1. No one would know that if I didn't tell them. She doesn't use her tablet as a pacifier because of strong parental controls, boundary enforcement and general parenting. She doesn't have unlimited access to YouTube because I learned that 30 mins is about all she can handle for short form videos. But we are working on tolerance and personal boundary settings with it. She started at about 10mins a day.

She's in elementary and we are slowly dipping into social media. Right now she's locked into platforms where she can only interact with a white list of people.

I don't want the government to scream at me that my way is wrong because shit disengaged parents exist. It's like at the stuff about screen time. It turns out the one study i read was correct. I don't harm or hurt as long as it doesn't replace human interaction.

Letting it be a free for all at 16 isn't going to do anything but make it worse because then kids at that age will get no guidance and it'll just be binging now with less societal care since nothing with be made to onboard children at all.

That's my major concern as an Australian.

I don't think there's any real attempt to protect kids, it's more about identifying all users on the internet