This is a sledgehammer for a walnut. Soon we’ll all have to use real world ID to access the internet, which will be further walled off by having to ask AI instead of doing a search
Tell that to any parent with an autistic child and they will tell you to fuck off
YouTube kids is 20 minutes of relief
Autistic children existed before youtube
Agreed
I mean that isn’t exactly the talking point I would want to use against age verification… We don’t have to dispute that calming children down with videos isn’t especially good for their development in order to argue against censorship and against keeping young people from having fun, having access to information, and socializing.
ETA: and provided that the parent has verified their age, it doesn’t affect that scenario anyway, so, huh
