Parental controls have existed for decades. I remember circumventing them in the 90s. This is not about children.

I dunno, sounds like the government is deciding.

This isn’t going to work when I just let my kids use the same pc as me without changing users.

The bill H. R. 8250 actually seems somewhat reasonable, especially compared to some other state-specific bills that we've seen.

No.

Software code is free speech and the government should not be able to regulate what the people do in software code in such a way.

Parents were already able to decide. They mostly choose not to.

How much did this cost us?

“Parents Decide Act”

Alright then. I decide not to comply.

This is bizarre. Why would they force people under 18 to verify their birth date, but if you're over 18 you can just enter your birth date with no verification?

Usually you only care about verifying the age of people over 18. What's this law trying to accomplish by only verifying children?

What if parents decide the don't want anyone verifying the age of their children?

I understand it like you have to force the user to input a date, but I see no requirement that this date has to be verified by the OS to be correct?

And if a user enters a date less than 18 years ago, another account with a date more than 18 years ago has to verify that date

So, what stops a user who is not 18 just enter an older date?

Each app just uses the date set in OS as verification, which honestly is better than each app having to ask for the date individually…

Don’t understand me wrong, I don’t like age verification at all, I would prefer a bill that forces the possibility to flag a user as “kid” and allow/deny categories like social media, payments, adult content, ads etc.
Like an extension of the admin/user setup we already have

And force websites and apps to respect headers/parameters like “denyCat=adult,social,payments,ads”

They sure know how to pick the names.
I remember the Freedom act.
Without knowing anything about this I'm going to boldly assume it probably means the opposite of parents deciding

everyone is about to be born on 1/1/1900