Hello im here with a small question On a forum im a part of it recently became a topic of interest that discourse requires you to be 13+ to use it as stated i think somewhere in the TOS? which is not uncommen many sights put it that but i was wondering… Is it truley discourses choice one a person…

"This topic has many facets. If we goto the root. Parents should be the ones restricting their kids and be held liable. Parents can install safeguards by having a white list if approved sites their children can visit/join. Age verification? How would you do that without compromising the idea of bei…

It’s important to note that regardless of whether you use our hosting or self-host, you are required to meet regulatory compliance standards in the jurisdictions that users may visit from. That means that if EU users may visit, you are required to undertake the necessary OSA risk assessments. That a…

True and i will keep that in mind as always

[image] HAWK: That almost certainly means that you will need to restrict children’s access even if you self-host. That isn’t totally true. Out there is only few countries that are limiting children’s use of social media. Are forums counted as social media… no, not now, but it is a possible sc…

Your’e correct – I should have said UK rather than EU. For the purposes of the UK OSA, Discourse as a U2U platform is in squarely in scope and therefore anyone running a Discourse site that may have users from the UK sign up must complete the risk assessments. Similarly there are requirements for …

I meant to add we only have had the legal requirement added because of delinquent parents neglecting their responsibility. Years ago over 10 now. There was some kids playing hockey in the winter in a public park. A kid was struck by the puck & died. A parent commented that the park should maybe …

Still better for parents to own their responsibility and restrict their children online be activity via a 3rdparty program that controls what sites are available.

Oh, I have a pretty strong opinion on this - but it is not very important, since I am purely interested in this from a technical point of view. From https://swov.nl/en/fact/bicycle-helmets-2-how-often-are-bicycle-helmets-worn-netherlands

Did you see what I posted here ? Age requirement for Discourse - #12 by RGJ

People probably did. But that app has been cracked/leaked/broken into 2 times already.

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The best i can come up with is the plug in or theme component (not sure which) where it has you enter your age if your not old enough it lets you know

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