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[–] 97 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (21 children)

Very insightful and well written! These Age verification laws are going too far and were never about the kids to being with.

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  • [+] -51 points 8 months ago (20 children)

    Did you read the same article or law?

    CA's law isn't age verification, it's an API to return the age bracket for a kid to app stores, the article correctly notes that it won't be verifying anything.

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  • [–] 92 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It's "foot between the door".

    Once this has been established as "normal", they'll slowly pile on more and more restrictions.

    Better to call out this bullshit know instead of mindlessly agreeing.

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago (13 children)

    It’s meant to manufacture consent.

    Come back in 5 years and see if they’re still satisfied with it.

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  • [+] -39 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    Unlike the lootboxes you think kids should have unrestricted access to, I'm sure the corporations will be satisfied and won't push even worse technology on kidsm

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  • [+] 16 points 8 months ago (9 children)
  • [+] -17 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Hear me out a non-invasive API isn't some terrible invasion of privacy, you already send user-agent strings to servers.

    Quit believing all the fearslop you see online man.

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  • [+] -13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    And yet here you are fighting to defend corporations from regulations, somehow thinking you're not on the side of facism. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Stop fedposting and take your fucking meds

    You debate like a Hutch viewer

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago

    Lmao Lemmy users proving they are in fact dumber than AI and when confronted with a mass hallucination will call everyone a fed 🤣.

    The more deranged you post, the more I'm convinced restricting 13 y/o s access to the Internet (that this law doesn't do) is a great idea.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Don’t put words in be to my mouth you filthy liar.

    Lootboxes should be straight up banned, along with all other online gambling , which has become a bigger scam than crypto at this point.

    If you are mad at gambling, you don’t focus the government to track the speech of everyone through a slow-boil process to make it socially inevitable that our fucking retinal scans are uploaded to a central government database that tracks everything we post online.

    Just ban the gambling. It should never have been allowed. That’s the legal protection you need.

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago

    you don’t focus the government to track the speech of everyone through a slow-boil process to make it socially inevitable that our fucking retinal scans are uploaded to a central government database that tracks everything we post online.

    Lmao have you actually read what the law actually says.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Its demographic data; if the apps themselves have any access to it at all, it will be misused by advertising companies to see if they're attracting kids (assuming people are actually truthful; i was totally 18 when i first looked at porn, trust me bro).

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  • [+] -26 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    To tear a company to shreds for getting kids addicted to loot boxes you first have to show they know their targeting kids.

    This isn't about porn, it's about app stores & Roblox.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    You’re forgetting that the parents are more responsible to their children’s safety. Don’t be like getting your 13 yr old gta 5. Easiest thing to do is buy an off the shelf solution for your win11 device to restrict and monitor.

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