Making your own user account on a shared PC is just common sense. That way you can customize it for yourself and your kids don't have to see your and your wife's private photos.

I'll say this is a good idea the day Gavin Fucking Newsom sits down with me, follows the Gentoo Handbook installation process from black box shell prompt to full working KDE desktop environment with all the bells and whistles (email, browser, office suite, printer working, etc.), and then explain exactly at which Fucking step the age verification prompt should be at. Fuck.

So far you've demonstrated you dont understand hyperbole or anger so again thats on you. It's not my responsibility to hold your hand and explain things.

You said the thread was packed full of bootlickers, and it clearly upset you greatly. Nice try to backpedal and project tho.

I guess it doesn't matter that no one indicated any level of licking boots even if you exaggerate what they wrote. And barely anyone even said anything you could twist into that.

But your supreme innocence here is what matters though. My bad.

This is definitely a case of just planting the seed, and then escalating from there. Go as broad as you can, then pair back requirements to get it passed. Once its in law, you complain that youre not able to police is properly to get more powers and have the law expanded. Repeat ad nauseum. Basically ending on full identification needed to do anything on any device.

And I don’t see anyone in the firing line, except perhaps Californian citizens…

Which, what, Californians are gonna be IP/geo logged and blocked by distro websites from clicking the download button?

Oh no! Whatever will I do! torrents

No it's not. Services requiring age verification can ask for your age if that's necessary. You can then decide if you want that service to have that information from there. Baking it into the OS with an API where anyone can just ask for and receive that information is asinine.

I don't understand why "progressives" are suddenly attaching themselves to this regressive anti porn crusade all of a sudden.

Parent your own kids and leave mine alone. I care more about the worms in my garden than what your kids do on the Internet.

Have you considered that age verification serves literally no purpose besides being a Trojan horse to kill anonymity on the Internet?

Ok and you can still do that without this law.

I don't really get the discussion. At least per that bill nobody gets forced to create multiple accounts. What it does is mandate a input field on account creation. (And a bit more.) Whoever sets up that shared family computer can put in what they like. Create one account or five. Thats up to them...

Thanks, honestly I had not actually read the bill before coming here to shitpost, and it seems like yeah it's more well-intentioned than people are giving it credit for.

I still have serious reservations about the broadness, vagueness, and premise that mandatory age signals are a good idea at all -- it's a lateral move at best; weakly attempting to kerb the most overtly predatory parts of the whole "age verification" movement, without opposing the idea itself.

But you're right, it's not the blatant data-vacuuming law that I think some people imagine it to be.

IMO the real solution to preventing kids getting into adult content is for Governments to agree on and enforce a universal set of parental controls that every program and website has to respect. Put the onus on parents to make sure their kids aren't doing that stuff.

But that's not the world we're working with. Instead Governments have decided they're going to play nanny, and it would appear nobody is taking no for an answer.

So from a practical perspective, if I'm going to have to play along, I'd much rather my own computer handle my sensitive data locally and prove my age for me, than multiple fuckwits' servers off who-knows-where holding onto that data per website I want to visit.