Glyphwhile I have a level of sympathy for the california/colorado style of age-verification law, and I think many reactions against it are overheated, at the end of the day we still have to oppose stuff like this because society's ideas of what ought to be age-gated are just wrong on the merits. the goal is to ban access to perfectly normal healthy things like queer communities and still allow kids access to fucked-up dangerous adults-only stuff like catholicism and the president of the united states
Viacheslav A@glyph on what level do you have sympathy to misdirected laws lobbied heavily by the corporation who is solely responsible for a huge chunk of all online harm happening today and does not want to do shit about it? I honestly think the overall reaction is underwhelming, most people don’t care, and the ones who do have to scream with all their might to attract at least some attention
@via4 our choice may be between California (age gating via personal attestation, in the OS) and Texas (age gating via extremely invasive and unrestrained collection of massive amounts of personal information, separately in every online service). If we have to make that choice, I'll choose California. But the whole reason I posted this is that we should get rid of it and choose neither.
@glyph there should be no ambiguities, it's some fake DOB in userdb today, it's remotely verified name, SSN and a dozen other fields in several years Probably worse than Texas, cause they were able to get a foothold on the OS level. Even worse if more states adopt it as an easy way that does not cause much of a push back