Comment on US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 days agoThis is bizarre.
It’s a path to knowing who everyone is, online.
Knowing who everyone is online is a path to accidental falls from third story windows for people who advocate for taxing billionaires.
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Except as written, it’s only a path to knowing who all children are, not the adults who are usually the ones advocating for taxing billionaires. Sure, they might change the law, but that doesn’t make starting it this way any less bizarre. I don’t understand what reason there would be to make it harder to make a child account than an adult account by only IDing children.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Every middle aged person was once a younger person. It could stop at children, but I don’t think that’s their plan.