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Comment by JamesLeonis

The elephant in the room is 'unverified' users will overwhelmingly be underage kids, and that absence will be tracked across the internet. This whole thing inadvertently exposes who are the kids vs the adults programmatically.

Second, if all it takes to get into underage spaces is not being verified, predators *will* notice and exploit this hole.

Even the absence of information is information.

> The Roblox games site, which recently launched a new age-estimate system, is already suffering from users selling child-aged accounts to adult predators seeking entry to age-restricted areas, Wired reports.

I rest my case.

parent JamesLeonis 8 months ago

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