That's the correct way to do it. Age should be something reported by browser/os/hardware. Something similar to User-Agent.
I really hope this will end the whole third party age verification farce.
I really hope this will end the whole third party age verification farce.
age verification laws have little to do with protecting anyone, and social media companies are attempting to remove themselves from liability for their dangerous product by pushing for it
social media in its current unregulated state is harmful as has been demonstrated repeatedly with (suppressed) studies, and the push for age verification instead of regulation on the actual harmful content
age verification will always be a tool to censor whatever content certain interest groups want to censor and it is a wild violation of privacy as has been repeatedly demonstrated every time an identity verification firm gets hacked, they do not take this seriously at all, and all the while the actual harmful sites continue to do harm and have the ability to blame others for not 'protecting' people from the harm their product causes
it's a complete farce and has nothing to do with protecting anyone except tech companies peddling a harmful product
_If_ you think there is content grown-ups should be able to see but kids shouldn’t be able to see without their parent’s consent, I don’t see what’s bad about this.
I also think many Americans agree with that _If_.
Note there's no verification in this law. "Age verification" is a deliberate misnomer.
But to require OS to implement all of this goes way to far and together with the proposed verification mechanisms is a privacy nightmare.
Edit: of course, downvote the comment pointing to Americans having more civil rights. Expect nothing less from the HN techbro cesspool. And yes, this meta commentary infringes the guidelines, and the trust contract is broken at this point. This site does not deserve my energy anymore.