It's about the weaknesses of men, that would gladly change a reduction of the chocolate ration into an increase, because it's their job to lie and alter the past, believing they are doing god's work.
Also, in 1984 surveillance is secret, not publicly stated in a formal document visible by everybody.
Better examples of 1984 in action: the DDR, the NSA.
"Big Brother" was a pretty big part of 1984, and I definitely have gotten "Big Brother" vibes from the EU these last few years, under the pretense of "we know better than you and we want to protect you".
Having a good will doesn't make it okay for the EU to become a helicopter parent, nor do I like the prospect of that good will evaporating and them having access to what is effectively more and more surveillance.
yeah, and what the Big Brother does to you if you don't follow rules is kept secret, by secret police agents, because
1 - the Big Brother doesn't physically exists
2 - people would revolt if they knew what really happens to deviants, so it's imperative they are kept in the dark (“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” )
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
So 1984 does not apply at all in this case, because the document is public and everyone can read it and eventually revolt against it
Smash down doors, get embarrassed a few times, pass legislation to ban "roleplaying as a minor in text conversations." Then there's no reason to be embarrassed again!
More practically, I would assume "age of the users of a device" is a well-derived bit of information available to anyone who asks for it with the proper letterhead. Or who just helps themselves to it.
My initial thought was to give adults an adult service, but that also means adults need to provide information (which a lot of adults wouldn't be okay with) so they can filter the kids out. Then you'd still have to run the proposal on every service kids and adults have access to. Then on top of that, you still need to filter out cases where its just minors, but at the same time you can't filter all of them because it might be a case of sexual violence between minors.
Legislation of a similar tone is already the law in many places. Some places ban pornography of adults with flat chests. Some places ban lewd drawings of characters who aren't sufficiently curvaceous. Many platforms hosting content such as literotica and erotic audio recordings ban content that describes or roleplays as minors.
