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Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks (www.internetmatters.org)
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[โ€“] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I couldn't stop laughing when one of my kids showed me a picture of his 10 year old friend's effort with the texta. We are talking comical magician curly moustache. Roblox verified that account as 18 though and now that account can't talk to his school friends.

[โ€“] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 14 hours ago

He outsmarted himself lol