Comment on Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level
paul@lemmy.org 13 hours agoYeah 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.
Feyd@programming.dev 11 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.