Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age

Maybe their fat governor should enact a law whereby people must act as responsible parents, instead of shoving an iPad in front of their child and declaring it hereto a software problem.

This oddly wasn't an issue 25 years ago when the Internet was the wild west.

The way to solve this is not to shove more PII into the open to be harvested and targeted by ad networks.

illogical hubris - no state can regulate the internet; no state can compel developers to write code. the court cases on this will be interesting

> The law also stipulates that all transmitted digital signals have to be encrypted.

I'm hoping there's nuance, but I'm surprised the article didn't go deeper on this too. ARP? ICMP? DHCP?

I can't actually load the bill to read it ATM.

From reading the article, it sounds like an enforced standardisation? Like, asking for account age bracket and then having a standard API to ask for it would be easy, right? Just write it to a root owned `~/.age-bracket` for each user or something (obviously something better).

It's a feature many apps implement in all kinds of ways already, especially games and social media stuff, so this, in theory, just makes it easier and consistent?

I'm against leaking our kids ages, and all the privacy and other concerns as much as anyone, but are we just getting overly angry too quickly on this one?

I get that it's a slippery slope too.

This is censorship; it is like saying you can't eat a steak because a baby can't chew it. They will try to ban Linux or fine Linux developers unless it reports the user's age.

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