Genuinely surprised and relived by the amount of common sense in this comment thread, that’s all I have to say

Look ma, no hands!

This… I know that my views aren’t the majority, but man do I love this platform and how people actually will have a legit conversation about issues.

The people who are over emotional and stirring the pot don’t get the same support here. Most just want the truth and to actually talk. I love this!

Fair point on the TikTok thing. I guess I’m struggling with understanding why in any circumstance it would be good for an adult.

Like okay, to protect kids is the clear first order effect, but the second order effect is exposing adults to identity theft.

Third, real person tracing and tracking.

Government control over what individual people can and can’t see.

I know I’m pushing that pretty rapidly to a 4/5th degree effect, but that’s slippery slope I’m considering so you see my headspace.

I mean with ID verification, you can tie real life names to IP address easily, and then nmap a route to it to find the location. Pretty basic stuff and you can now stalk an adult, or worse, a child.

But how would that header be verified?

It has to be verified at some point by someone.

That header could also easy be used to exploit children online. All I would need to do is a simple intercept to log headers.

Either trust parents to do their jobs fully, and then hold them accountable, or draw a line at which point a child can be reasonably held responsible.

If a 6 year old steals, it’s the 6 year olds fault. They’re tried differently, but they still know bette, this isn’t any different. But obviously a 6 year old should not be accessing porn for a plethora of reasons.

Kids are babied already but if 14 year olds can vote in party elections, and 16 year olds can consent to sexual intercourse with adults, then I don’t think restricting porn is our problem. Either kids can make decisions, or all of these laws need to align with each other more logically.

We have taken parents rights away to allow children to make decisions on their gender and name changes, yet we expect parent to be responsible for their actions like accessing porn.

I could not care less about whatever the final say is on age restrictions, but if there are gonna be rules, at least make them make sense you know? I also do not love that I have to verify my identity to use the internet. Look at the UK and how that’s working out there even without IDs. Talk about authoritarian control.

This stuff is the whole reason I switched to this platform.

I love that we’ve gone so far that finally the left and right are on the same page. This is the progress I’ve dreamed of.

Giving the government more power is like letting someone beat you up for his fare when you could just walk 1km.

I mean, advocating for eating people is in itself a crime, so maybe the bot thought you were trying to push for cannibalism? 😂

I feel like you missed my “loose statement” point

This actually makes sense. The problem though, will be the same reason fact checkers failed; personal and institutional bias on what’s considered acceptable.

Only an unbiased AI could do this well, and that’s a loose statement.

Every Reddit mod is thriving in victim culture. The instant someone makes a complaint, they become a victim, and the smooth brained mods are incapable of removing their anchoring bias from their brains when making a decision.

To be clear, they’re talking about banning right wing people. Reddit is one of the most liberal platforms you will find.

You can’t even talk economics on Reddit without being downvoted to fuck, or banned.

I am a centrist, and I routinely had posts removed and got banned from communities for saying things from actual textbooks taught currently in universities.

No one is attacking the free speech of the left unless it’s radical and advocating for physical harm.

The irony in this statement is deafening.

That is usually how severance packages work