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But then how do the websites trust that the operating system did it "properly"?

It's the age old problem that the client is inherently untrustworthy from the point of view of the server. Anything could be running there, including a version of Linux that just lets any user say "I'm 36" without checking anything.

I mean, I say problem. It's very much their problem more than ours.

@petealexharris @carnage4life I'm going to say (perhaps hope) that the goal of the California bill is not ironclad compliance. Instead it is about satisfying a social concern, while minimizing overhead and protecting privacy.

As far as I'm concerned, if a parent can just say a kid is 16, that's good enough. It would be a much worse world if a parent actually had to prove it.

And if a kid admins his own system, that's on him too.