The Communications Department planned to impose age-verification requirements on online video platforms like YouTube and TikTok

[mylesillidge]

Age verification systems for YouTube and TikTok in South Africa planned

The Department of Communications planned to impose obligations on online video platforms such as YouTube and TikTok to implement age-verification systems in South Africa.

This was in the hopes of age-gating content that may be distressing or harmful to children, alongside implementing other new online safety regulations.

 

[borro]

Problem is: the parents. Get a grip

 

[friedpiggy]

Protecting children from online content is not the governments responsibility.

 

[bwana]

Protecting children from online content is not the governments responsibility.

What’s the choice when parents are often either unable or unwilling to parent?

 

[RedViking]

AI written policies ?

 

[Carl_Johnson]

This is them hard at work.

 

[Carl_Johnson]

Problem is: the parents. Get a grip

The parents are drunk!

 

[quovadis]

AI written policies ?

Patent this. An agent for a computer that monitors your kids device usage and reports back to the parents - if they don't act it escalates to the Department of Impostion of age-verification requirements - Online video platforms like YouTube and TikTok. Settle up now or I will Makate you, eventually.

 

[RaptorSA]

"These policy changes included the creation of an ombudsman to regulate online media services and the enforcement of age verification on online video platforms."

Let us guess:
Take home pay will be over 3-4 bar a year. All expenses subsidized and paid by the state.
Total amount of work will be a few hours annually using ChatGPT or Gemini to generate a media statement now and again and will be done by their secretary.

 

[Sapphiron]

What’s the choice when parents are often either unable or unwilling to parent?

prosecute the parents

 

[quovadis]

"These policy changes included the creation of an ombudsman to regulate online media services and the enforcement of age verification on online video platforms."

Let us guess:
Take home pay will be over 3-4 bar a year. All expenses subsidized and paid by the state.
Total amount of work will be a few hours annually using ChatGPT or Gemini to generate a media statement now and again and will be done by their secretary.

Should just be assigned to FPB - they'll just make it self-regulation.

 

[Mirai]

What’s the choice when parents are often either unable or unwilling to parent?

The solution here will be to give your ID document photo to a new cadre operated SOE.
Or perhaps it will be a foreign operator who will be paid with tax. Your ID scan will go there instead.

 

[Hemi300c]

They thought about a IQ test but they realized they wouldn't be able to gain access.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

People like TheChamp would just need to show their membership card

 

[Randomwasavailable]

Protecting children from online content is not the governments responsibility.

From the government that allowed 12-year-olds to get abortions without informing their parents. The government that pays people to have children they can't afford and don't care about.

Someone smarter than me said that this merely creates infrastructure that can later be used for about anything else. These types of authoritarian rules are always introduced for our protection. Yeah, I'm definitely buying it.

 

[Randomwasavailable]

"These policy changes included the creation of an ombudsman to regulate online media services and the enforcement of age verification on online video platforms."

Let us guess:
Take home pay will be over 3-4 bar a year. All expenses subsidized and paid by the state.
Total amount of work will be a few hours annually using ChatGPT or Gemini to generate a media statement now and again and will be done by their secretary.

Sounds about right.

 

[AntennaMan]

They can go suck a fat one.

These schemes didn't work anywhere else they were implemented, at least not for the stated purpose of stopping minors from engaging in online content.
But they do work as a means of tracking and controlling people. This is probably the main purpose of these things.

 

[garyc]

Concern has been expressed about sites requesting the age band of the person. This could end up with the internet becoming a predators delight.

The main priority seems to be more control rather than thinking about the children.

 

[Bad Ballie]

Get the sign in to confirm who you are nonsense from YouTube on a regular basis, as it is easy enough to find another source I usually just close the tab and move on.