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Let's keep the politics and business side of things to a minimum.
No memes
These laws are stupid. If you want to protect kids, you should focus on getting parents the tools they need to lock down their kids' devices however they see fit.
If you want to protect kids
They don't.
That is kinda the point of the California one. The parents identify the device as belonging to a child when setting it up. There is no verification past asking for a date. The Illinois law also appears to be constructed in this way (I may have missed something though). The New York and Texas ones seem to require ID though the wording is vague. Utah and Louisiana outright require verification. Interestingly Louisiana's law explicitly considers children married under 18 not to be minors for the purposes of the law.
If you want to protect kids, you wouldn't let a couple random adults dictate their life, body, education, and web access just because they happened to give birth to them
It's sad that people who don't know what it's like will probably disagree with you, and to be honest I do not have a entirely better solution as it feels like it requires positive intent not specific stipulations (Russia and North Korea for example take it to the other side of the extreme). The width and depth of the human experience remains one of it's worst characteristics. 🫠
And it's downright fiendish that a 100% imaginary thing like money decides who lives and who dies, but that's the world we live in.
It's not that you're wrong, it's just that there are very few paths to a better solution. Perhaps the local people's militia should take all children at birth and raise them? Until that time it'd be neat if parents had a simple, affordable way to stop their eight-year-old from seeing hardcore pornography.
I was there for the birth of the internet for everyone, sadly I'll be here for its death as well
These types of laws seem to be popping up around the US. How long until this plague spreads to other countries?
There was a post on r/linux and OP said there were lobbyists for this bill, and Meta was one of them.
I don't understand how anyone thinks any part of this is going to work out.
This will never keep someone from viewing something if they really want to. All it will do is open up individuals to prosecution if they want to use any device anonymously.
I don't understand how anyone thinks any part of this is going to work out.
Unfortunately, you do, but because you don’t have an authority fetish (guessing), you’re thinking about the law and how the hell it could be implemented.
However
All it will do is open up individuals to prosecution if they want to use any device anonymously.
This isn’t a bug. It’s a feature.
There are laws in the works outlawing VPNs too.
They are trying to contain free and open source operating systems of all kind and as a bonus they get to stop people from using PCs and other devices anonymously.
The future is going to be workhouses.
Papers, please, comrade.
It already did for a few years. The US wasn't the vanguard of it.
If they require authentication with some identity checking company, that's really bad
Is this to keep gramps from doomscrolling