cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52642833
Denmark’s government has announced a plan to ban social media access for anyone under 15. The Ministry of Digitalization has led the move, allowing some parents to consent for children as young as 13 after assessment.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251107204816/https://apnews.com/article/denmark-social-media-ban-children-7862d2a8cc590b4969c8931a01adc7f4
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Yes. It’s not complicated. The grown-up way to do it is to have parents or other appropriate people be responsible for ensuring that the children in their care are permitted only to use web browsers that are set to a standardized “child mode” in the configuration, which simply signals to all concerned that the user is under the age limit.
There is no technical barrier to doing it. It isn’t expensive or complicated. There is no need for any more than that one bit of data to be collected by anyone. The determination of age would be done that way. Everything else, including what giant social media corps are allowed to do to children, can be just as they imagine it.