Well what's happening is millenials and gen x are pulling the ladder up behind them after running amok in the early days of the internet. They look at teenagers today and are afraid things are different than when they were kids. Which is what every generation does.

Of course it doesn't help how the internet evolved to exploit every human flaw and weakness, won't someone think of the children... ? And thus the crusade to protect children from today's boogeyman remains on repeat.

But in a way I'm surprised it took a smidge over 30 years for this sort of thing to happen too.

Originally posted by nullable:

Well what's happening is millenials and gen x are pulling the ladder up behind them after running amok in the early days of the internet. They look at teenagers today and are afraid things are different than when they were kids. Which is what every generation does.

Of course it doesn't help how the internet evolved to exploit every human flaw and weakness, won't someone think of the children... ?

But in a way I'm surprised it took a smidge over 30 years for this sort of thing to happen too.

I'm a millennial and work with plenty of Gen Xs and I can tell you that this isn't our doing.

This is still boomers carrying on, pretending we all need to be protected and that future generations will benefit from their actions.

What you posted is misinformation in regards to Australia, it has been legislated that companies cannot solely rely on digital ID for age verification and must provide an alternative method.

As for the ban on under 16’s on social media, that is a good thing as it stops young kids being radicalised on sites like Reddit and tiktok which are both banned, if a parent decides their child needs to see something on social media then that’s fine but the child cannot have an account of their own.

Originally posted by datCookie:

Originally posted by nullable:

Well what's happening is millenials and gen x are pulling the ladder up behind them after running amok in the early days of the internet. They look at teenagers today and are afraid things are different than when they were kids. Which is what every generation does.

Of course it doesn't help how the internet evolved to exploit every human flaw and weakness, won't someone think of the children... ?

But in a way I'm surprised it took a smidge over 30 years for this sort of thing to happen too.

I'm a millennial and work with plenty of Gen Xs and I can tell you that this isn't our doing.

This is still boomers carrying on, pretending we all need to be protected and that future generations will benefit from their actions.

Your personal experiences are anecdotal and mean nothing in terms of reality. The social media ban was implemented by a group of politicians whose age ranges from 21 to 90 so please stop projecting ageist propaganda about “boomers”.

The nanny states took inspiration form the authoritarian countries. Eventually even countries that value independent responsibility will follow. It is too tempting to be able to control individuals, even if indirectly, because that is what it evolves to eventually, no matter the intention of the law.

Originally posted by datCookie:

I'm a millennial and work with plenty of Gen Xs and I can tell you that this isn't our doing.

This is still boomers carrying on, pretending we all need to be protected and that future generations will benefit from their actions.

Yup.
This ain't us. We actually feel some kinship with the current generation.
We see our role generally as less:

"We need to protect them"

and more:

"We need to teach them not to be the edgelord asshats we were."

Originally posted by Shreddy:

Originally posted by datCookie:

I'm a millennial and work with plenty of Gen Xs and I can tell you that this isn't our doing.

This is still boomers carrying on, pretending we all need to be protected and that future generations will benefit from their actions.

Your personal experiences are anecdotal and mean nothing in terms of reality. The social media ban was implemented by a group of politicians whose age ranges from 21 to 90 so please stop projecting ageist propaganda about “boomers”.

This is all boomers doing and nothing to do with millennial and Gen Xs.

GOOD. No ID, No SALE

How Boomers like Mr Newell had this madness go on this long should be what we're blamed for.

As with our do nothing governments who did nothing but stuff rich folks with money.

This should have happened 20 years or more ago.

20 years too late of a poisoned generation of youngsters that's parents cared nothing about them, nor did their government.

Produce an ID, or no adult content.

Originally posted by The Jagji:

. The 16 age req, yep. The requirement for IDs to be scanned and stored though, is ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

You cannot have an age requirement without an ID requirement.

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Originally posted by datCookie:

I'm a millennial and work with plenty of Gen Xs and I can tell you that this isn't our doing.

This is still boomers carrying on, pretending we all need to be protected and that future generations will benefit from their actions.

Yup.
This ain't us. We actually feel some kinship with the current generation.
We see our role generally as less:

"We need to protect them"

and more:

"We need to teach them not to be the edgelord asshats we were."

I don’t think I can think of a single generation whose rebellion was not informed by what the prior generation desired for them.

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Originally posted by The Jagji:

. The 16 age req, yep. The requirement for IDs to be scanned and stored though, is ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

You cannot have an age requirement without an ID requirement.

No you can they are separate things.

Originally posted by superblake_:

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

You cannot have an age requirement without an ID requirement.

No you can they are separate things.

How you gonna enforce age requirements then?

Originally posted by Sciencemile:

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Yup.
This ain't us. We actually feel some kinship with the current generation.
We see our role generally as less:

"We need to protect them"

and more:

"We need to teach them not to be the edgelord asshats we were."

I don’t think I can think of a single generation whose rebellion was not informed by what the prior generation desired for them.

yeah. which is true for the current gen. And my generation can wince collectively because we know in about 210 years the cringe is gonna hit them so hard.

Valve will use whichever government approved methods that are available. But nothing for this verification is stored on Valve's end.

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Originally posted by superblake_:

No you can they are separate things.

How you gonna enforce age requirements then?

You already have a age verification system in some form on steam a id verification is for verificating ID not necessarily age. infact not all forms of age verification has your ID and not all forms of ID verification has your age and their is more than those verification methods.