In a blog post Richell notes that the New York version as far worse since it “explicitly forbids self-reporting and leaves the allowed methods to regulations written by the Attorney General” and so developers of operating systems and devices would have to have more than just your date of birth to put you into some age bracket like the California law seems to allow.
These types of laws seem to be popping up around the US. How long until this plague spreads to other countries?
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.
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.
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.
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
