alt Hacker NewsSpeak for yourself. This is impacting open source and is fundamentally against the open source ethos.
Governments demanding computers enforce age is as dumb as governments demanding books, pen, and paper enforce age.
This is unrelated to industry. This is idiots running the government.
I'm probably missing something, but when I read the California statute I didn't understand it to be anything like "computers enforcing age" - more like, when you create an account it needs to ask your age, and then provide a system API by which apps can ask what bracket the account holder is in. This seems better than the current solution of every app asking independently?
Again, I'm probably missing something but it strikes me as pretty trivial to comply with?