User:Louis/Manufacturing support for age verification: Difference between revisions
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The 89% is real. The manipulation is in the distance between the question it answers and the policy it is used to sell, & in who was allowed to answer the questions that came after. Parents were asked whether they want a legal minimum age at all. The policy sets that age at 16 & bans everyone younger. Between ''a minimum age'' and ''age 16'' sits every parent who would have set the line at 13, 14, or 15, & the questions that named 16 were put only to the parents who had already said yes, with no answer left for ''none at all''. A broad, fair number ends up standing in for a narrow, contested one. And in the one venue where people could object without a form deciding their options, a petition, far more of them did than the 8,443 the government quoted as consent. | The 89% is real. The manipulation is in the distance between the question it answers and the policy it is used to sell, & in who was allowed to answer the questions that came after. Parents were asked whether they want a legal minimum age at all. The policy sets that age at 16 & bans everyone younger. Between ''a minimum age'' and ''age 16'' sits every parent who would have set the line at 13, 14, or 15, & the questions that named 16 were put only to the parents who had already said yes, with no answer left for ''none at all''. A broad, fair number ends up standing in for a narrow, contested one. And in the one venue where people could object without a form deciding their options, a petition, far more of them did than the 8,443 the government quoted as consent. | ||
[[File:Biometric Update tweet | [[File:Biometric Update tweet 89 percent parents age limits.png|thumb|center|upright=1.8|The Biometric Update post claiming ''89% of responding parents'' backed a legal minimum age and that the debate has shifted to how age assurance should be governed and enforced, a figure that appears in no primary source.<ref name="bu-tweet" />]] | ||
==UK consultation: Growing up in the online world== | ==UK consultation: Growing up in the online world== | ||