Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours agoiPhone New iOS Age Verification Sparks Outrage as Users Say 'I Will Switch to Android'www.ibtimes.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1271
arrow-up1271external-linkiPhone New iOS Age Verification Sparks Outrage as Users Say 'I Will Switch to Android'www.ibtimes.co.ukLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-squareyeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·edit-26 hours agoWhy not just make it so nobody under 18 can own a smartphone. Why these fucking useless age checks.
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoThis. Smart watches exist. Kids don’t need smartphones.
minus-squareVirtvirt588@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoRhetorical questions aside. Let’s not counteract a dystopia with another dystopa here.
minus-squaredarkkite@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 hours agoMe using an android as a child taught me how to use linux, command line etc. seems arbitrary to deny the phone entirely. maybe certain online services should be though
minus-squareVirtvirt588@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 hours ago as a child So you where under 12, when you learned how to use Linux? Its either that or you where actually a teenager not a child. But in general I do agree with controls set on children, locally by the parents that is - excluding teenagers.
minus-squareVirtvirt588@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 hours agoExactly, children and teenagers are meere tools.
Why not just make it so nobody under 18 can own a smartphone. Why these fucking useless age checks.
This. Smart watches exist. Kids don’t need smartphones.
Rhetorical questions aside. Let’s not counteract a dystopia with another dystopa here.
Me using an android as a child taught me how to use linux, command line etc. seems arbitrary to deny the phone entirely. maybe certain online services should be though
So you where under 12, when you learned how to use Linux? Its either that or you where actually a teenager not a child.
But in general I do agree with controls set on children, locally by the parents that is - excluding teenagers.
Surveillance.
Exactly, children and teenagers are meere tools.