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Re: Garfield July 8

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In article <ttlmkddol4r55clv86r6mr6j0u69n0vt9d@4ax.com>,
J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:04:17 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>Heydt) wrote:
>
>>In article <492d34d2-25a7-4dea-bb7a-49dfb7757478@googlegroups.com>,
>>Quadibloc  <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 2:45:03 PM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>>> In article <378faf04-194b-4b41-a3a7-f15a2cec4eeb@googlegroups.com>,
>>>> Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> >I had to click on an alarmingly peremptory "SUBMIT!"
>>>> >button.  I wonder what I just submitted to.
>>>
>>>> Acknowledging that you are not a dog, IIRC.
>>>
>>>As the previous reply noted, the peremptory SUBMIT button was there in
>response 
>>>to COPPA. Thus, in order to authorize them to save advertising cookies about 
>>>you, you first had to declare, under penalty of perjury, that you were
>at least 
>>>13 years old.
>>>
>>>I guess it's better to throw 12-year-olds in jail than to invade their
>privacy 
>>>or something.
>>
>>Well, it's not for the children's benefit, as you know very well;
>>it's to reassure parents that their little darlings won't read
>>anything naughty.  I can't remember ever seeing anything naughty
>>in _Garfield_, and I did not attempt to tell the filter I was
>>either a dog or an underage human.  Does the filter (did anyone
>>try?) actually bounce you if you say you are an underage human?
>>And what's to prevent you from lying to it?
>
>I see that with a lot of sites--"enter your birth date" as if nobody
>ever lies about their age.

I suppose it's so the site owner can say, "Hey, we *asked* them
if they were of age.  How could we tell if they were lying?"

Maybe a better gate process would to be to ask a question that
no one under age would know the answer to?  I don't know what
such a question could be.  Ask questions about Y2K?  No, I'm not
serious.  Ask questions about 2000-era rock music?  *I* couldn't
answer those, and I'll never see eighteen again.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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Garfield July 8 peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2018-07-10 21:36 -0700
  Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-11 05:05 +0000
    Re: Garfield July 8 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-11 04:30 -0700
    Re: Garfield July 8 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-11 13:12 -0700
      Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-11 20:18 +0000
        Re: Garfield July 8 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-11 14:00 -0700
          Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 06:50 -0700
            Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 14:00 +0000
        Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 06:53 -0700
          Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 14:04 +0000
            Re: Garfield July 8 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 10:20 -0400
              Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 15:23 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2018-07-15 23:26 +0300
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 20:41 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 13:59 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 23:14 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 14:07 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 23:26 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-15 17:20 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 20:37 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-16 17:27 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-16 11:29 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-16 19:48 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-07-15 17:57 -0600
            Re: Garfield July 8 Wolffan <akwolffan@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 10:53 -0400
            Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 13:58 -0700

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