The California age verification law imposes behaviour of application developers that I consider morally absurd.
As an application developer, I will never request any information from the OS or any other place to gather personal information about a user - especially if the act of that request has legal implications on what I am deemed to "know".
I simply won't.
Any system that enforces such a check, is a system I will not support.
I am so glad I got the opportunity to grow up in an age where there were no restrictions on what I could do with computers I could access.
Personally I consider any attempt to remove that access from anyone as abhorrent. It is a core part of who I am.
The danger with these kinds of laws is that it is very easy to make them sound reasonable.
To fix that, please imagine these restrictions and requirements applied to book publishers and authors and libraries.
It would be absurd to require age verification/checking before being able to read something. We allow parents to decide what is suitable for their own children, but we do not require librarians or bookstores to do age checks, nor hold authors liable for precocious reading.
@sarahjamielewis hmmmm, they do for movies.
Perhaps the ruling elite just cannot read well and dislikes it and therefore ignores it.
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