Parents who view their kids as property
Auth@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Its parents that are pushing for this stupid shit. I hate that the majority of voters want to implement robust age verification.
Archr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Are they? The law effectively only applies penalties to the parents. If you have not ready the law I highly recommend it. It is very short and says nothing about actually verifying the age of the user. It is equivalent of entering your age on steam or the “are you 18+” questions.
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Go read the bill, particularly section 1798.501.b, 1798.502.a and b. Every developer of every application that can be downloaded from every package system MUST request your age bracket every time it is downloaded or face the fine. And possibly every time it is launched. Basic utilities like ‘ls’ and ‘cat’, that pong example I pushed as a test, everything.
Archr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I fully agree, the definition of application is too broad and should be revised. But how do we revise it without also introducing loopholes that companies can exploit.
All the law requires developers to do is receive the signal and treat that as the primary indicator of the user’s age and to comply with applicable laws (ie. things you should have been doing already anyways).
For applications like ls (which let me be clear that I do not believe this app should be covered by this law) it could be as easy as requesting the signal from the OS, deciding that the user’s age bracket does not matter for your execution, and just performing as usual.
They should really limit the definition of application to just social media apps. (which would likely include things like irc apps).
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 days ago
The law effectively only applies penalties to the parents.
This applies penalties to far more than the parents. If I provide an operating system to a California parent, and my operating system does not include this “signal” apparatus, I can be fined $7500 every time a kid launches an application on my OS, for my deliberate decision not to implement their asinine horseshit.
Archr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mean yea. If you don’t make a good faith effort to implement this age attestation page and api to allow apps to pull from it. Then yes. You would be liable.
You could of course decide to not provide to residents of California and Colorado. No one is forcing you to provide for either of these states.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 days ago
And if I make a good faith effort, but it doesn’t work right, that’s a $2000 penalty. Every time that snot-nosed, unsupervised kid opens an app.
You could of course decide to not provide to residents of California and Colorado.
Yes, that’s exactly what Microsoft and Google want. They don’t want my FOSS OS competing with their commercial offerings.
Auth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I hate the law I dont need to read it. I oppose all age verification measures floated. Do you think the average parent is reading these laws? They dont care that they have to verify age they will happily sign in with facebook and give over their ID. They see this as an actual solution even though it effectively just makes everything worse.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 4 days ago
Is it? Honestly I think it’s just astroturfed. The entire imperial core suddenly got obsessed with regulating the internet after young people started waking up to the realities of the genocide in gaza.
Auth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Parents have been complaining about this for close to a decade but it really hit a peak in the last 4 years. Now that people have floated solutions they actually have legislation to vote on. If you are seen to be shooting down legislation that “protects kids” the average parent is going to hate you.
They think moderating internet usage is hard for them to do and they think that this is a magic solution that will actually work to keep their kids off these sites. Its dumb but its the world we live in.