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by gzread 8mo ago
There's no age verification in this law...
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by gzread 8mo ago
I read it as you're not allowed to discard the more reliable source.
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by gzread 8mo ago
If you aren't already scanning ID or similar then you don't have clear and convincing reasoning to believe the user is underage. This section targets spyware companies like Facebook, who already know damn well if the user is under
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by gzread 8mo ago
But this is actually a really good policy? It just says every OS shall have a UI to turn parental controls on or off, and an API to check if they're turned on. That's a good thing. It satisfies the reasons people wanted age verifi
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by gzread 8mo ago
To about the same extent that food labeling is a 1A violation.
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by gzread 8mo ago
Why necessarily with a password - what's wrong with the option to say "only allow installation of apps suitable for under 13s"?
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by gzread 8mo ago
I think the uproar comes because the well is already poisoned. People are already trained to respond with an outburst of anger to any law that mentions the age of the user, and will find excuses to rationalize that outburst, even when the l
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by gzread 8mo ago
The California and Colorado laws don't involve any ID.
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by gzread 8mo ago
Free software is already mandated to do a lot of things, like not defraud the user. If you make a bitcoin wallet that sends 5% of your money to the developer without asking I'm pretty sure you'll be prosecuted, so the government i
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by gzread 8mo ago
The vast majority wants a parental control setting on the kid's device, and that's what is being imposed in California and Colorado right now. The vast majority don't want to upload their passports. That's what we should
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by gzread 8mo ago
If you don't want to be censored just don't check the checkbox that says "this device is for a child, please censor adult content"? There's no passport check in the CA/CO law, in fact it's expressly forbid
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by gzread 8mo ago
How would you impose it on them? Facebook's only way to tell your age is for you to upload an ID document and don't we want to avoid that? But when a parent buys a device for their child, they can just enable the setting that says
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by gzread 8mo ago
By this reasoning we should oppose every law in case it's a foothold to sneak in a different law. The CA/CO parental controls API law is very reasonable. It only mandates each OS must have a parental controls API, the use of which
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by gzread 8mo ago
If you're geeky enough to install a virtual machine and know that will break the restrictions, you're probably mature enough to not need them. Banning pubs from selling to minors doesn't work, but we should still do it, right
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by gzread 8mo ago
The CA/CO law is literally the government writing a law that says it shall be left to the parents but the device must give the parents the options they need.
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by gzread 8mo ago
The CA/CO law only requires the option to enable parental controls on an account, and as the article points out, can be worked around by a sufficiently determined child using something like a virtual machine. This is not really the gov
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by gzread 8mo ago
I don't understand what you're trying to say in this comment. Can you reword it?
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by gzread 8mo ago
How does mandating every OS to have a parental controls API lead to wholesale suppression of speech? Will they mandate it to always be set to the most restrictive setting?
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by gzread 8mo ago
It's also a consumer product regulation, of which many already exist. The government compels you to speak about the ingredients in a food product you manufacture, and we don't seem to have a problem with that.
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by gzread 8mo ago
There is some. Bars won't serve minors. The standardisation of parental controls law (the CA/CO one) is much closer to "bars won't serve minors" than it is to "camera drones will follow minors around to make su
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by gzread 8mo ago
There's fake protecting children and there's real protecting children. The Colorado and California parental controls API laws (not age verification laws, there is no age verification in these laws) are clearly "real protectin
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by gzread 8mo ago
And laws like this California one actually make it more illegal.
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by gzread 8mo ago
The alternative wasn't an ID requirement, the alternative was the client/OS sending the flag to the server/app.
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by gzread 8mo ago
I understand they can't say "contains sesame seeds" if it doesn't, but why can't they say "processed on equipment that also processes sesame seeds" like some packages do?
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by gzread 8mo ago
It's necessary if the page contains mixed content. Under your proposal, Google Search would need a separate search page that shows adult content, and that would be even worse for privacy - logs would show whether you accessed the adult
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by gzread 8mo ago
The California law doesn't strip away any anonymity or privacy except for the additional fingerprint signal of you being a kid or not, which is no worse than Accept-Language
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by gzread 8mo ago
If your train is cancelled, you can take the next train or a different train, without buying a new ticket. The app will tell you this.
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by gzread 8mo ago
They have an app with a code that isn't QR displayed. You can also get a PDF to print if you want to.
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by gzread 8mo ago
What is a deposit if it's not a loan from you to the bank?
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by gzread 8mo ago
The way I see it, French trains are more reliable, but they mostly go from Paris to other places. Germany operates a mesh network, with more lines, more centers, and more trains.

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