Roblox Requires Age Checks for Communication, Ushering in New Safety Standard

Good start. But this still leaves them at the mercy of these tech companies.

Kids—especially pre-teens—should not have social media. There is just way too much evidence that this has harmed and is harming an increasingly class-segregated generation.

Gas stations are careful about selling cigarettes to kids. We need these developers to have even a shadow of that concern.

That is moronic. And destructive.

Children are human beings, and are supposed to get a chance to grow naturally into being community members. That is an incremental process. Not everybody does all the parts in the same order, nor at the same rate. And you don't suddenly snap from being a "child" into being an "adult", and reboot all your human connections in that moment.

You don't mature at all without interacting with some adult role models (not just seeing them from afar, and not just seeing the parts people want to show you). No, your parents are not enough. You also need to interact with slightly older, and substantially older, non-adults. The tight age cohort isolation produced by schools is already destructive enough to social development.

Children are also entitled to have access to information and activities, just like everybody else. And, no, not all of that would somehow get duplicated into your child ghetto.

And it means absolutely nothing that people "used to do that just fine without the Internet". That was before everything was done via the Internet.

> Not just because of pedos, but because young adults don't have the same level of respect and filters that one should have when dealing with kids and it's exposing them to behavior they shouldn't.

Get a fucking grip. Kids can handle knowing about behavior you don't like. They can handle knowing about really bad behavior. They can handle seeing what older people do,and what the consequences are. In fact, that is essential to the development of their own values and capacity for self-governance.

If you raise somebody in a box until the age of 18, don't be surprised if they can't deal with the outside world when you force them out of it.

I have a hard time believing groups of 103,000 members on one of the largest game platforms are "openly trading child pornography"

As a parent, all I want is for the fucking thing to let zero people that I have not approved communicate with my kid in any way. This especially includes people that made games and gambling dens.

Also, influencers.

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And you can block them from interacting with specific games or users.