Here is a link to learn more about the bill.
It is also important to note this legislation also includes language for ongoing, real-time monitoring. Not just verification
Here is a summary from the link shared above:
Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user's age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).
I love the inclusion of the API acronym; all super serious sounding. Like these dumb pedophiles even know what an API is!
You are encouraged to have an opinion about this. It is obvious what is happening here.
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The bill is about requiring age verification
but, ya did
So you want ideas:
I'd argue that it doesn't need regulation "as a whole". We've been running for decades with light-touch admin just where it's necessary. Why do we now need full-on authoritarian control? What changed? When someone makes a place that's targeted at kids, they need to police it. AI is fully capable of reading every conversation had on roblox and identifying adults trying to stalk kids. Roblox could afford to use teams of people or AI to keep all this at bay.
I'm not referring to the specific bill but the problem as a whole that is online verification and moderating misinformation. This kind of online verification has been kicked around for almost a decade now, it's not new.
By all means, quote me where I supported that proposal then; otherwise you're wrong and you just don't want to admit it (which is just, classic online discussions)
It's been running for a decade with light-touch as both Corporations and Governments caught up to the technological changes of the century. Now all parties are caught up and understand how to grease the wheels of the algorithm, harvest data, and manipulate information to their benefit. It started to gain momentum around ~2014 and have been going from there. Once Musk bought Twitter and turned it into a propaganda machine is when the ecosystem changed for the worse IMO.
The issue of misinformation and manipulation of content by external sources is bigger than Roblox. LLMs are not yet sophisticated enough for both full moderation, misinformation control, and online verification.