- Do we know who is funding this? is this one of these things where Meta doesn't want the responsibility for this, so they are pushing to have the OS have the responsibility or something like that?
- Meta. Specifically to undercut Apple.
- How does this undercut apple? This entrenches apple's position as a provider of "verified" devices.
- Facebook. There's a wave of child endangerment lawsuits incoming and they want to head that off at the pass by having governments shift all that liability over to the OS vendors.
- Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft. Maybe with a push from 3 letter agencies, because it makes their life easier.
- People lend phones or computers to kids. The age associated with the user account means absolutely nothing.
- So, who's gearing up to sue the FTC for a declaratory judgment that this is unconstitutional?
- That means porn sites won't require me to independently verify my age right? Right?
- We still have to provide a way for people that don’t have (smart) phones, but I would absolutely implement asking the phone instead of a 3rd party when available.
We don’t gain anything from asking a 3rd party. In fact it costs money per request.
- Writing like this is frankly so exhausting. I don’t think anyone not already in the choir could make it through.
- Some people really need shit spelled out to them. This does a great job of doing that in a small package.
- The breathless fearmongering over an age field on account set up is just completely over-the-top. This is probably the least bad out of all possible ways to implement age checking. The benefit of this is that it can short-circuit support for more onerous age verification. The writing has been on the wall for some time now: the era of completely unrestricted internet is coming to an end. The question is how awful will the new normal be? Legislation like this is a win all around, a complete nothingburger. We should be celebrating it, not fighting it tooth and nail.
The tech crowds utter derangement over this minor mandate is truly a sight to behold.
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