Could new separate domains provide safe access for kids?

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The discussion focuses on creating separate country-level domains specifically for children, such as ".kidsau" for Australia, to provide safe access to social media platforms like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. This approach involves devices locked to these kid-specific domains, ensuring content moderation tailored for under-16 users. IPv6 is mentioned as a potential enabler for this segregation. However, the primary challenge remains accurate age verification while maintaining simple registration and access. An alternative solution proposed is family-based accounts where parents own the main account and manage linked child accounts, including approval of friend requests.

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  • Domain Name System (DNS) and country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs)
  • IPv6 addressing and network segmentation capabilities
  • Age verification technologies and methods
  • Account management systems with parental controls

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  • Research implementation of child-specific ccTLDs and DNS policies
  • Explore IPv6 network segmentation for domain-based access control
  • Investigate advanced age verification solutions balancing security and usability
  • Develop or integrate family-based account management frameworks with parental approval workflows

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Policy makers, social media platform developers, cybersecurity professionals, and parental control software designers aiming to enhance safe internet access for children under 16.

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There is a concern about kids access to social media and so on, and some countries are banning access under 16.
Would it be realistic to add kids country-level domains and then use devices locked to that type of access ?
Eg Australia uses ".au", that could be supplemented by something like ".kidsau", and other countries would have
similar additions. Then kids could use devices that would only access the kid domains, and twitter/utube/facebook et al
could moderate the content and accounts to be suitable. Maybe IP6 has the scope ?
 
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The problem is still accurate age verification while keeping the registration and access processes simple.
 
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The better approach is to make accts family based with a parent as the owner and kids have their own acct attached to the parents acct. parents would approve friend requests.
 
synch said:
and twitter/utube/facebook et al
could moderate the content and accounts to be suitable
A while back ( 10 years or so ) someone told me their child had to delete their account on Facebook due to being under 16, maybe under Biden. Under Trump, the tech social media switched sides so that might not now be as much of a concern.

But a lost account is lost revenue. Some oversight would be necessary for compliance.

What issue(s) with under 16 is problematic?
The digital devices are put in schools, and for kids to take home, so it is not too much staring at a screen.
The level of (s)exploitation has dropped so that part is working, so its not that.
Some schools have private monitored wifi that students can use, so peer bullying, etc can be restricted.

So why this push to 'save the children' from the digital world?
 

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