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Headline is wrong. There is no verification requirement.

All this does is require the user to select a non-verified age bracket on first boot. You can lie, just like porn sites today. I thought HNers wanted parents to govern their children's use of technology with these kinds of mechanisms.

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It seems to come down to whether you expect the next law to be taking the enforcement mechanism away from the parent. If the law was, "major operating systems must ship parental controls that actually work" I doubt you would see much pushback. Parental controls is an oft cited reason to give your kids Apple devices. Expanding that everywhere would be great. But I don't want to have to present my government ID to use my own computer.

> You can lie, just like porn sites today.

In the US maybe, but where I am you can't fap in peace without using a VPN or have some kind of age verification. Some of them being baroque. Example:

"We analyze your email’s digital footprint (history and reputation) against trusted databases. This is often enough to confirm that you're of legal age."

This is an article about California.

Sure, I just give you an example about what could come to California.

Shh, don't give them more stupid ideas ;)

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