>Japan's communications ministry plans to require social media platforms to conduct stricter age verification of users to address issues such as addiction and bullying among youth, according to a draft plan presented Wednesday.>The proposed policy was included in the draft plan presented at a meeting of experts. The Children and Families Agency will determine specific measures and whether legal revisions are necessary when the final report, expected by summer, is submitted.https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-eyes-stricter-age-checks-for-young-social-media-usershttps://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/japan-weighs-age-based-filtering-on-social-media-to-combat-addiction
Uh, I thought they weren't going to implement age verification policies. Or was that simply at the OS level? Why are burgerbros incentivizing the adoption of online age verification across the Western world? In Japan's case, is it more of a preventative measure because they'd be too powerful as antisemites?
>>108664689OS level is better if it's just the honor system (i.e. parental control). Online age verification means de-anonymizing yourself and giving your ID to Palantir.
>>108664717There is no need for that because most things have parental controls already. Making a law for it is just a trojan horse for more aggressive censorship or government control of OS's
>>108664732Right, but the ones existing in red states like Texas and in countries like UK and Australia, and soon the whole EU, are already the most intrusive to privacy.
>>108664587Japan eyes
