I am not a fan of the rise of mandatory age verification in apps and websites.

[carnage4life@mas.to]

I am not a fan of the rise of mandatory age verification in apps and websites.

But if that’s the direction we’re going to go in then it makes the most sense for this to be supported at the operating system level than every random website or app collecting your government ID.

https://www.ft.com/content/c36dc645-8cd4-4e69-a9ce-3a0ac4071264?syn-25a6b1a6=1

[dergiga@troet.cafe]

@carnage4life If you implement a bad thing correctly, it easily gets worse than implementing it half-assed.

Might be my experience as a German.

[buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social]

@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.