When a corner shop sells cigarettes to minors, who's breaking the law?
When a TV channel broadcast porn, who gets fined?
These are accepted laws that protect kids from "harm", which are relatively uncontroversial.
Now, the privacy angle is very much the right question. But as Discord are the one that are going to get fined, they totally need to make sure kids aren't being exposed to shit they shouldn't be seeing until they are old enough. In the same way the corner shop needs to make sure they don't sell booze to 16 year olds.
Now, what is the mechanism that Discord should/could use? that's the bigger question.
Can government provide fool proof, secure, private and scalable proof of age services? How can private industry do it? (Hint: they wont because its a really good source of profile information for advertising.)
When a TV channel broadcast porn, who gets fined?
These are accepted laws that protect kids from "harm", which are relatively uncontroversial.
Now, the privacy angle is very much the right question. But as Discord are the one that are going to get fined, they totally need to make sure kids aren't being exposed to shit they shouldn't be seeing until they are old enough. In the same way the corner shop needs to make sure they don't sell booze to 16 year olds.
Now, what is the mechanism that Discord should/could use? that's the bigger question.
Can government provide fool proof, secure, private and scalable proof of age services? How can private industry do it? (Hint: they wont because its a really good source of profile information for advertising.)