Comment on Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level

• paul@lemmy.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How else are they going to verify your age?

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  • Feyd@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you didn’t even read it before writing a diatribe accusing me of supporting things I absolutely don’t. It literally says in the fucking bill that you just input it into the device.

    Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date or age of the user of that device to provide a signal regarding the user’s age bracket (age signal) to applications available in a covered application store;

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    • paul@lemmy.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah because the American police state will be perfectly happy with you only providing a date. You’re going to wake up soon to a world you don’t understand, if you don’t start paying attention.

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      • Feyd@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Look man, if it’s a good solution it’s a good solution. You’re attacking things that haven’t been proposed (by the bill in the OP).

        I actually don’t think legislation in a US state is a good way to create a technology standard so I wouldn’t like to see this pass, but it’s honestly the best way that I’ve seen to provide age verification for websites.

        It puts the onus on the parents to set the date correctly and takes it off of businesses to comply by doing it themselves where privacy is definitely at risk. If this is what was implemented it would not harm privacy and it would defang the “protect the children” arguments they constantly use to justify completely destroying privacy.

        You can rant and rage until you’re red in the face, but those are the facts.

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