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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

I’m going to be the contrarian here and say the bill is… good? It seems sensibly lax: The OS is required to ask for age, without external proof or requirement to share, and then provide apps who request it an interface to verify your answer.

I think taking the responsibility to verify age out of whichever dodgy data broker asks for it and unto the operating system itself, and ultimately the user if they lied, is a far better solution to the “problem” of age verification, which I don’t believe is going anywhere any time soon.

If you disagree please don’t be mean, I only just read the draft bill

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd agree. The bill is the best attempt I've ever read by some politicians. It kinda tries to just mandate parental controls built into every operating system. Which is the way to go? I mean every other way enforces somthing, or there's third-party surveillance... Less so with this one.

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