Ubisoft has started email users of its services that it is rolling out age verification for Ubisoft accounts, with limits coming in for social features so
so players can only interact with people on their friends list unless the account is verified
Seems fair to me, not like interacting with strangers is a core part of the game.
I don’t get Lemmy’s view on this shit, everyone’s up in arms about roblox being a pedophile playground but when Ubisoft tries to stop kids talking to strangers they get mad at age verification, what are the companies supposed to do?
Because people see that this isn’t about protecting kids, but about wanting to start requiring IDs for every aspect of the Internet that didn’t used to have it. So it doesn’t just stop at Roblox but getting to the point where even signing up on Lemmy might have ID requirements depending on the country.
The answer is better parental controls to lock down accounts and even get alerts and logs of what their kids are doing rather than this attempt to get IDs. Provide better easy to use parental tools. Not to mention, these verification companies have had links to places like Palantir.
The for the children argument is one to be skeptical of when it goes hand in hand with less privacy. I’d expect more awareness of this from people on lemmy than those on reddit.
Seems fair to me, not like interacting with strangers is a core part of the game.
I don’t get Lemmy’s view on this shit, everyone’s up in arms about roblox being a pedophile playground but when Ubisoft tries to stop kids talking to strangers they get mad at age verification, what are the companies supposed to do?
Because people see that this isn’t about protecting kids, but about wanting to start requiring IDs for every aspect of the Internet that didn’t used to have it. So it doesn’t just stop at Roblox but getting to the point where even signing up on Lemmy might have ID requirements depending on the country.
The answer is better parental controls to lock down accounts and even get alerts and logs of what their kids are doing rather than this attempt to get IDs. Provide better easy to use parental tools. Not to mention, these verification companies have had links to places like Palantir.
The for the children argument is one to be skeptical of when it goes hand in hand with less privacy. I’d expect more awareness of this from people on lemmy than those on reddit.