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It seems they’re worried about peer to peer interactions.

My experience regulating my daughters internet access is that interactions with other kids have the highest potential for toxicity.

They seem ok with kids passively consuming a stream of adult generated content.

They’re also excluding SaaS which just emulates desktop software.

I think that’s about right.



Guess we should ban all teens from stack overflow, LinkedIn, and hacker news because kids might have toxic interactions online if we don't.

Let's also not mention how the only way to reliably do this is to require identity verification from all adults. Get ready to scan your drivers license to post on hacker news and every other site (except traditional news sites apparently).


Utah is small enough that some sites may just geoblock Utah. I know if I had to choose between collecting every user's ID ever and just adding a block list, I'd go with the second.


How do websites handle under 13s? Blocking the United States?


I would support this. Downvote away.


Kids can be mean to each other, now or in your day. Next they ban kids from talking to each other in person or having friends. Is that the life you want for your daughter?


Apparently videoconferencing with kids is AOK while chats are not?




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