Do you trust your government to handle your ID data safely and in a way that law enforcement etc. can’t access without proper cause? This is definitely going to get used to do police raids and years-long device seizures on people who call dick politicians dicks - the process is the punishment.
The government **already **handle your ID data.
It has your document id number, SSN equivalent (in Italy Codice Fiscale), the number of your driver license, the number of your passport, know where you live, know where you work and know any other information about you that allow it to identify you, they issued most of them, they know them.
If you actually want to protect children, force operating system manufacturers or home internet hardware manufacturers to implement child filters that work reliably.
It was proven times and again that filters are useless.
Man, they where useless back at the time where the filter at the newsstand was a person that could check you id before selling you pornographic journals and they are useless today where you need to be 18 to buy alcohol.
The only real solution is to educate the children, which require educated parents.
they are useless today where you need to be 18 to buy alcohol.
[citation needed]
It’s certainly possible to circumvent it, but where I live most people don’t become regular drinkers at 15. It makes it harder to access, and many people actually do want to follow the law. IMO a social media ban is going to work the same way - many will circumvent it, but many others won’t bother.
Spaniard here. It was long ago, but never ever had issues on supermarkets. On clubs it was a hit or miss, but just knowing someone who knew someone who knew the bouncer and was good to go. If they still refused, just go to the next one.
There was no night ever were I wanted to get wasted and I couldn’t.
The problem with social media id is not those who circumvent it, is that the rest need to link our ID with our profiles, even if we are old.
I grew up in Germany, where I live supermarkets (and most other places) generally don’t let underage people drink. Supermarket cashiers only fully stopped carding me when I grew a full beard in my late twenties. Might be different in some rural places or different corners of the country, though.
IMO “just need to know someone” can be a pretty big barrier if you don’t know many people (and specifically people who would let underage people drink) or just aren’t that popular.
Sure different counties had different situations. I’m the UK I had to show my id while being 24 very commonly, the year before I lived on NL and was never asked.
A year after UK, it was asked without fail in the US even for a beer during lunch.
My favorite was in Ireland, while being 16, couldn’t get anybody to get me drinks from a store. I just thought “fuck it” and went to a Spar to buy vodka, handing my id immediately to the cashier.
He looked at it and turned out multiple times. It was in Spanish and he wasn’t familiar with it. Either he didn’t care, or war ashamed to ask, but just handed back and let me buy.
The government **already **handle your ID data.
It has your document id number, SSN equivalent (in Italy Codice Fiscale), the number of your driver license, the number of your passport, know where you live, know where you work and know any other information about you that allow it to identify you, they issued most of them, they know them.
It was proven times and again that filters are useless.
Man, they where useless back at the time where the filter at the newsstand was a person that could check you id before selling you pornographic journals and they are useless today where you need to be 18 to buy alcohol.
The only real solution is to educate the children, which require educated parents.
[citation needed]
It’s certainly possible to circumvent it, but where I live most people don’t become regular drinkers at 15. It makes it harder to access, and many people actually do want to follow the law. IMO a social media ban is going to work the same way - many will circumvent it, but many others won’t bother.
Spaniard here. It was long ago, but never ever had issues on supermarkets. On clubs it was a hit or miss, but just knowing someone who knew someone who knew the bouncer and was good to go. If they still refused, just go to the next one.
There was no night ever were I wanted to get wasted and I couldn’t.
The problem with social media id is not those who circumvent it, is that the rest need to link our ID with our profiles, even if we are old.
I grew up in Germany, where I live supermarkets (and most other places) generally don’t let underage people drink. Supermarket cashiers only fully stopped carding me when I grew a full beard in my late twenties. Might be different in some rural places or different corners of the country, though.
IMO “just need to know someone” can be a pretty big barrier if you don’t know many people (and specifically people who would let underage people drink) or just aren’t that popular.
Sure different counties had different situations. I’m the UK I had to show my id while being 24 very commonly, the year before I lived on NL and was never asked. A year after UK, it was asked without fail in the US even for a beer during lunch.
My favorite was in Ireland, while being 16, couldn’t get anybody to get me drinks from a store. I just thought “fuck it” and went to a Spar to buy vodka, handing my id immediately to the cashier. He looked at it and turned out multiple times. It was in Spanish and he wasn’t familiar with it. Either he didn’t care, or war ashamed to ask, but just handed back and let me buy.