Mastodawn

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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Alex Rosenberg

@sarahjamielewis My ideal is not to know any PII about the user unless absolutely necessary. Collecting PII means I need to disclose that in my app description on the App Store and steward that information according a growing variety of laws around the planet. No thanks. Forcing me to collect that data is a horror show of amateur governing.