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As someone who spent my formative days figuring out how to bypass early digital locks my school was putting in place to "protect us" ... The system loses this game. Every time. You are taking kids with nothing but time, no apparent drawbacks, and everything to gain... And placing them against "good enough" implemented by people who could give two shits about it.
This will continue to lose until they twist the knobs too tight and hit false positive central... And oops now the populace hates it. Control for thee is fine until its for me.
Tale as old as technology itself.
Mine was simple, but great. IE was hidden/removed in our typing class, maybe 5th grade. I guessed you could type a www.domain.tld in Word and when you pressed space, got a clickable URL that was still tied to IE. I knew about the URL, but learned it would still open with IE hidden. ๐คฃ๐คฃ
I used to go to the "about Microsoft Works" pop up under the "help" drop down in Works (yes I'm old), and then click a URL on there that would open up a functioning IE window.
We used to get up to so much shenanigans in high school computer classes... I remember playing Unreal Tournament over LAN with like half the class without the teacher knowing
It was Quake for us ๐ I'm not even that old, it's just the only game that was small enough to store on the shared network without being discovered
Remember the V-Chip? LOL
It pains me to say I do - hah. The south park movie bit on it was perfect.
Even with false positives it won't change anything. It's just a small group of people. It's worth it to "save the children". If "the system" rejects you, then you must be at fault. Maybe we can even sell a "Super ID Check". Just a one time $200 fee and then the system will leave you alone. (For 3 years, then pay the fee again, but renewal is even faster this time.)
I'm not saying its going to happen quickly... But filtering in many forms has been tried in the past and they all died similarly. Some vocal group gets inconvenienced by it and then, under scrutiny, the blemishes get paraded out and the project dies a slow ugly death.
The actual reason for the push right now is meta (among others) just want to wash their hands of the responsibility... And that aligns with some tech bros wanting to hoover up peoples ids and resell that info. The whole thing will sour once there's a significant leak that ties risk into that bottom line and nobody will want to carry it.