Re: IAB Statement on Age-Based Restrictions and Online Safety
Vittorio Bertola <[email protected]>
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> Il 24/08/2026 20:49 CEST Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Hi IAB, > > In the mostly reasonable statement below, I think you (the > IAB) have made an implicit assumption that services should > be enabled/encouraged to grow to sizes beyond which they > can actually do things like moderation, as is largely the > case today with pretty much all the mega-commercial services > and other too-big entities. If I may, I do not think that any online discussion or community service could ever survive with zero moderation, and this was the case already in the entirely volunteer age of Usenet and BBSs. It is just part of running this kind of services. But I agree with you that decentralization would do a lot to reduce pressure, especially in term of the effects of potential over-moderation. > Do you know of a place where a discussion on this topic might > be had? (cc'ing [email protected] in case someone does) DINRG? By the way, if I have to find a puzzling sentence in this statement, it is this one: > > Mandating the creation of unproven new > > infrastructure (e.g., third-party age-assurance services) Coming from a country - one of several, and one which is not known for cutting-edge Internet technology - that has been having for a decade a public, distributed identity system serving two thirds of the population (~40 million accounts), I would hardly call this "unproven new infrastructure". Ciao, -- Vittorio Bertola | Head of Policy & Innovation, Open-Xchange [email protected] Office @ Via Treviso 12, 10144 Torino, Italy