Kids can bypass age checks with a drawn-on mustache

They get the metrics they want, they don't give a toss what anyone looks at after that.

Kids today have it so easy. in my day we had to sit on a friend's shoulders and put on a raincoat and hat.

As found by the Internet Matters survey, it seems that the "safety" regulations required by the UK's "Online Safety Act," that went into effect last year, don't seem to be doing a whole lot of "protecting." Of the 1000 kids surveyed, 46% say the checks are easy to bypass, only 17% claim they're hard to get around. The workarounds are myriad - the headline only focuses on the one that's both the funniest and the most damning, but other methods mentioned include using pictures of video game characters, lying about their birthdays, and the old classics - either just snatch an adult's ID long enough to get a picture, or just getting a "cool parent" to sign them up. Internet Matters found that 17% of parents admitted to actively helping their kids get around the check, and 9% more just looked the other way.

Finger mustache tattoos for the kids is going to make a huge comeback.

I'm someone who has always appeared older than they really were. Even today, as a bonafide adult, people are shocked when I tell them how old I am. While I know the two aren't mutually exclusive, I would hope that children will be given more web safety education rather than just relying on age-gates. It isn't possible to make the internet kid-proof, so I hope we can at least try to make the kids internet-proof.

> "Stronger action is needed from both government and industry to ensure that children can only access online services appropriate for their age and stage and where safety is built in from the outset, rather than added in response to harm," Huggins said in the report. They want more invasive age verification. Age verification and age assurance are unacceptable privacy violation that only exist to steal personal information. Mandatory age verification needs to be illegal for social media, mature content, and other services that aren't government sites, drugs/alcohol, or financial services.

Place of work... Business Factory?

It's a me, Mario.

No one with broccoli hair should ever be considered an adult, mustache or not.

And hipsters are coming back in style!! What what 🙌 (Kidding)

Whoever is providing the age verification service has likely made out like bandits, they don't care about how well it works

I don't live in the UK anymore. But this shit is spreading. Anyway, I'm partway through reading *1984* right now, and based on how things are playing out in general, it seems like the obvious solution would be to vaporise doubleplusungood parents who commit wrongthink by fooling Big Brother's infallible system for their children. Any surviving children can be put to plusgood use by increasing output yield in the mines.

We saw this before in Vietnam, people never learn.

This makes me very angry.