• Re: Age verification in O

    From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Thu Mar 5 07:24:12 2026
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Facebook requires users to be "at least 13 years old." That's
    Facebook's way of saying "13 is fair game for sexual predators." The
    other problem is how do they expect to verify that a user is 13? By forcing them to submit a photo so that some pervert in an underground Hawaiian bunker can guess their age?

    It seems that there's always an element of pedophilia in these edicts.

    You're right that it's a control thing. Some people have the "sysgod" mentality.

    Too many people have that mentality.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Thu Mar 5 14:17:54 2026
    Facebook requires users to be "at least 13 years old." That's Facebook's way of saying "13 is fair game for sexual predators." The other problem is how do they expect to verify that a user is 13? By forcing them to submit a photo so that some pervert in an underground Hawaiian bunker can guess their age?

    It seems that there's always an element of pedophilia in these edicts.

    I read more about it and they said they rely on an AI program to "detect" the child's age based on a video selfie that the child must upload (it reminds me of when I got kicked off for refusing to upload a video selfie.)

    Not only "can" they detect if child is 13 or not, but they "can" also detect if Aaron Thomas is REALLY Aaron Thomas. But of course it's BS. If they can detect a person's age then they should prove it first, before deploying it on children. (Leftoids are probably letting their kids do it.)

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Fri Mar 6 07:04:52 2026
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Not only "can" they detect if child is 13 or not, but they "can" also detect if Aaron Thomas is REALLY Aaron Thomas. But of course it's BS.
    If they can detect a person's age then they should prove it first,
    before deploying it on children. (Leftoids are probably letting their
    kids do it.)

    At the base of it is control over everyone. This whole "think of the children" thing is just an emotional ploy to get people to give up their rights.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Fri Mar 6 07:56:24 2026
    At the base of it is control over everyone. This whole "think of the children" thing is just an emotional ploy to get people to give up their rights.

    That should be clear to most parents. Remember when parents didn't want their kids uploading video selfies on the internet? I'm still living in those times.

    But the left is trying to trick parents into:
    "To make adults happy, you must allow your child to upload video selfies."

    It's like a bartender saying "Your child can drink vodka here, but first they have to upload a video selfie."

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Sat Mar 7 08:11:33 2026
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    That should be clear to most parents.

    It is now. Especially after the Scamedmic and parents really saw what their teachers were doing/saying.

    Remember when parents didn't want
    their kids uploading video selfies on the internet? I'm still living in those times.

    Yup. I know of parents who will not post public pictures of their children to social media at all.

    But the left is trying to trick parents into:
    "To make adults happy, you must allow your child to upload video
    selfies."

    I think the term "gaslight" is better than "trick". But, ya.

    It's like a bartender saying "Your child can drink vodka here, but
    first they have to upload a video selfie."

    But what they SAY they are doing (remember, all Leftie policies always have the opposite impact of what they SAY) is "To prevent your child from getting served, everyone uploads a selfie."

    But we aren't dealing with non-tech-savvy parents anymore and they can just say "No, I'll just make sure that he doesn't go into a bar or liquor store".


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Sat Mar 7 14:28:46 2026
    It's like a bartender saying "Your child can drink vodka here, but first they have to upload a video selfie."

    But what they SAY they are doing (remember, all Leftie policies always have the opposite impact of what they SAY) is "To prevent your child

    You're right. They have no legitimate reason to even try to "verify age 13" in the first place, so it's "safe" to assume that they're doing something sinister with these videos.

    But we aren't dealing with non-tech-savvy parents anymore and they can just say "No, I'll just make sure that he doesn't go into a bar or
    liquor store".

    But we may be dealing with ignorant parents, and if a big enough problem arises from their ignorant actions, that opens doors for new laws that
    benefit Meta, like "All children throughout the USA must submit a video selfie to Meta, per new law, because we need to protect children."

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  • From Matthew Munson@1:218/109 to Ron L. on Sat Mar 7 17:21:36 2026
    RON L. (1:120/616) wrote to Aaron Thomas <=-

    At the base of it is control over everyone. This whole "think of the children" thing is just an emotional ploy to get people to give up
    their rights.
    They even want to lock up linux with age verification.


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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Sun Mar 8 09:16:29 2026
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    You're right. They have no legitimate reason to even try to "verify age 13" in the first place, so it's "safe" to assume that they're doing something sinister with these videos.

    Of course.

    But we may be dealing with ignorant parents,

    We've been dealing with ignorant/permissive/neglectful parents for over 100 years now.

    There is no 100% effective fix and anyone who offers one is lying.

    and if a big enough
    problem arises from their ignorant actions, that opens doors for new
    laws that benefit Meta, like "All children throughout the USA must
    submit a video selfie to Meta, per new law, because we need to protect children."

    The Elitist playbook is:
    1. Create a crisis.
    2. Use that crisis to get an emotional reaction in the voting public.
    3. Use that emotional reaction to get them to give up rights and give the Elitists more power.


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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Matthew Munson on Sun Mar 8 09:16:29 2026
    Matthew Munson wrote to Dr. What <=-

    They even want to lock up linux with age verification.

    Yup. And that won't happen.

    IHMO: This "age verification" is being pushed partly because of the public's reaction to Win 11.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Sun Mar 8 11:43:02 2026
    laws that benefit Meta, like "All children throughout the USA must submit a video selfie to Meta, per new law, because we need to protec children."

    The Elitist playbook is:
    1. Create a crisis.
    2. Use that crisis to get an emotional reaction in the voting public.
    3. Use that emotional reaction to get them to give up rights and give the Elitists more power.

    That's it. So with this video selfie thing, we can expect in the near future:

    "AI bots are imitating American children and we need Tim Walz for president so he can stop them" and "The Trump administration refused to do business with
    Anthropic because it wouldn't help him win the war that he started in Iran."

    (I should be a "reporter" for the left.)

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Mon Mar 9 07:20:47 2026
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    "AI bots are imitating American children and we need Tim Walz for president so he can stop them" and "The Trump administration refused to
    do business with Anthropic because it wouldn't help him win the war
    that he started in Iran."

    (I should be a "reporter" for the left.)

    Your headlines made the same amount of sense as the Left's. :)


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