Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoIt wouldn’t even work on paper. All it would take to twist this into something dystopian is requiring attestation for the age range, and knowing lawmakers, they would justify it as a countermeasure for kids lying about their age. Expand the feature as a web API so websites can use the “easier” and “more secure” system-level age verification process and—oh look, now we can’t use important websites without a commercial operating system.
It would be like Secure Boot but worse. At least with that you can turn it off or enroll your own keys.