US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

xt00

Do we know who is funding this? is this one of these things where Meta doesn't want the responsibility for this, so they are pushing to have the OS have the responsibility or something like that?

vscode-rest

Writing like this is frankly so exhausting. I don’t think anyone not already in the choir could make it through.

Dwedit

People lend phones or computers to kids. The age associated with the user account means absolutely nothing.

ranger_danger

That means porn sites won't require me to independently verify my age right? Right?

greyface-

So, who's gearing up to sue the FTC for a declaratory judgment that this is unconstitutional?

hackinthebochs

The breathless fearmongering over an age field on account set up is just completely over-the-top. This is probably the least bad out of all possible ways to implement age checking. The benefit of this is that it can short-circuit support for more onerous age verification. The writing has been on the wall for some time now: the era of completely unrestricted internet is coming to an end. The question is how awful will the new normal be? Legislation like this is a win all around, a complete nothingburger. We should be celebrating it, not fighting it tooth and nail. The tech crowds utter derangement over this minor mandate is truly a sight to behold.

yabutlivnWoods

Tim Apple argued it was a violation of their engineers and managers free speech to make them engineer back doors Wonder if they will stand up against this on the same grounds https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/