The optional birthDate field gives other projects a standardized data source for age verification compliance.

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[–] 27 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Yep. Its honestly mild as hell.

Essentially legislation that says:

  • app stores have to have age categories to silo children, teens, and adults.
  • OSes have to have a field to collect this data from users when they set up their login, so it can be sent to app stores via API.

Its just a standardized system that should have been done ages ago, but was not a priority for standards orgs, so none stepped up - so legislation appeared.

I strongly argue that it should only apply to commercial OSes and app stores though - as they're the ones that primarily cause issues these laws intent to address.

Linux and FOSS have been caught in the crossfire in a privacy and personal data battle they were not involved in.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    The boiling pot goes up 1C, then another 1C

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    nope. slippery slope is basically “bad thing can happen, so it will happen” without evidence to support that outcome. here, we have a trajectory. there’s a pattern. it has momentum at this point. it hasn’t changed corse. it’s followed a predictable and proven pattern. It’s done so because the the pressures exerted on this particular system guide the outcome in predictable ways.

    that is entirely different than the slippery slope dismissal

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    No, entirely incorrect. "bad thing can happen, so it will happen" is essentially a mangling of Murphy's Law.

    In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected [eg: this minor law] because the slippery slope advocate believes it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends [eg: loose claims of a pot getting hotter implying further details will be demanded next].

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

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