US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

Do we know who is funding this? is this one of these things where Meta doesn't want the responsibility for this, so they are pushing to have the OS have the responsibility or something like that?

People lend phones or computers to kids. The age associated with the user account means absolutely nothing.

So, who's gearing up to sue the FTC for a declaratory judgment that this is unconstitutional?

The breathless fearmongering over an age field on account set up is just completely over-the-top. This is probably the least bad out of all possible ways to implement age checking. The benefit of this is that it can short-circuit support for more onerous age verification. The writing has been on the wall for some time now: the era of completely unrestricted internet is coming to an end. The question is how awful will the new normal be? Legislation like this is a win all around, a complete nothingburger. We should be celebrating it, not fighting it tooth and nail.

The tech crowds utter derangement over this minor mandate is truly a sight to behold.

That means porn sites won't require me to independently verify my age right? Right?

Writing like this is frankly so exhausting. I don’t think anyone not already in the choir could make it through.