Very insightful and well written! These Age verification laws are going to far and were never about the kids to being with.

Did you read the same article or law?

CA’s law isn’t age verification, it’s an API to return the age bracket for a kid to app stores, the article correctly notes that it won’t be verifying anything.

It’s meant to manufacture consent.

Come back in 5 years and see if they’re still satisfied with it.

Unlike the lootboxes you think kids should have unrestricted access to, I’m sure the corporations will be satisfied and won’t push even worse technology on kidsm

Hear me out: maybe just maybe parents could show some fucking responsibility regarding their children and access to the internet.

Quit pushing “help the children!!” propaganda man.

Hear me out a non-invasive API isn’t some terrible invasion of privacy, you already send user-agent strings to servers.

Quit believing all the fearslop you see online man.

Yeah last I checked we’re in the middle of fascist takeover intertwined with the technocracy. Do you even believe your bullshit?

And yet here you are fighting to defend corporations from regulations, somehow thinking you’re not on the side of facism. 🤷‍♂️

The corporation of volunteer contributors to the FOSS community?..