Sarah Jamie LewisMar 5

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116161459299855467

Something I want to make clear:

The "age verification" bit of the CA/CO laws are not the bit I care about i.e. a law that requires an operating systems to implement some kind of parental control feature is...whatever.

The bits I care about are the obligations on developers to call APIs and then that invocation being taken as evidence of knowledge.

Specifically, I think a -legal- requirement to:

- make any kind of call is an attack on speech
- know a users age (bracket) is a privacy violation

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@sarahjamielewis What I would be interested in is that do those laws apply to embedded software that has an OS, and if they are, to what extent?

Are scientific calculators suddenly required to have an age verification API? Are radars?

Mar 5 at 10:18pmWeb
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@sarahjamielewis

But well, if they are, maybe there's accurate use case for HTTP status response 418.