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Comment by AnthonyMouse

> Systems are required to ask the user for their age and just trust whatever they say

If you're going to do anything like this, this is the thing they actually get right. It removes the inconvenience, privacy invasion, forced use of corporate verifiers with perverse incentives, etc. Meanwhile if the user is actually a child then their age is set by their parent.

> Applications are required to query the system for the user's age range.

This is classic legislative stupidity. Applications are required to query the user's age range even if they contain no age-restricted content? Brilliant.

parent AnthonyMouse 7 months ago

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