Post-ID: thread-20260629082004-1e9a44d3
Created-At: 2026-06-29T08:20:04Z
Board-Tags: general
Author-Identity-ID: openpgp:fddaf0700cfc4659f571d58f698b7ad4db729e33
Subject: Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech | Hacker News

If we taught systems thinking in schools things like internet age verification would never get past being an idea on the back of a napkin. People struggle to consider the second-, third-, and nth-order effects of anything so asking them to consider what else might happen if we bring in laws and technical mechanisms to 'protect the children' is unfortunately too a big leap for a lot of them. Most people are bad at spotting causal links between parts of a system, and people who are good at it exploit that.

          Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech | Hacker News
          https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714529