isdononthephone

What's most shocking to me is the willingness to comply on display here and elsewhere.

If the state proposes you stick a corncob up your rear, your initial response shouldn't be to ask if they prefer you use a rubber or wooden mallet to achieve compliance.

Seeing as this is Illinois we're talking about, it's probably less about protecting kids and more about extorting punitive fines from tech companies for non-compliance.

> violations can cost up to $50,000 each

I hear slot machine noises.

> all support age verification

No, they all support harvesting your data so they can continue doing what they do best: building shadow profiles and targeting ads.

Nothing a signal of an age group tells them more than "send me more ads for XX year-olds".

Why do you think it's always a question asked in online surveys?

> What if the parents are very good plumbers and car mechanics, should they also be expert in software design and installation?

You know who else are not experts in software design and installation? Fossil politicians and slimy bureaucrats.

Name one public sector state or local website that isn't utter garbage and a nightmare to use. Go ahead I'll wait.

They need to get their sticky donut-eating fingers out of my personal computer.

That's the social contract with open-source software. You are not owed a cent for your work. But they're not owed support either.

On the other hand, building an entire company atop experimental software that might explode or cease to exist tomorrow seems so monumentally stupid that the inevitable business failure is the outcome they don't need, but so badly deserve.