Parental rights have been a hallmark of conservative politics for decades. That nominally continues today. Former President Donald Trump has an entire page on his campaign website dedicated to the issue. Last year, House Republicans passed a Parents’ Bill of Rights. The mantra stands that parents know how to raise their children better than the government. However, this noble attachment to parental autonomy in decision-making has all but been abandoned when it comes to technology.
There is an ever-increasing push from the right to implement device-wide age verification. This would force device manufacturers to determine the age of all users. This would pass the responsibility for filtering content a minor might be exposed to from parents to companies like Apple and Google.
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