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Well then the solution is to have some company create a solution to make parental controls much easier.
Instead you're going to give your ID to Peter Thiel who will use that to connect all of your online activity to a single profile of you. Eventually, when he and Trump and all the other right wing idiots feel emboldened they'll send Gestapo to your house on voting day to make sure you can't make it to the polls (or just straight up nullify your vote). And that's the best case scenario.
Palantir is positioning itself as a crime prevention system that needs access to all of your health, education, spending and other data until they know every single thing about you so they can "predict crime before it happens".
In 10 years time, the world is going to be a far worse place and people like you will be to blame for allowing it.
Where does it say you give anyone your ID?
How else are they going to verify your age?
So you didn't even read it before writing a diatribe accusing me of supporting things I absolutely don't. It literally says in the fucking bill that you just input it into the device.
Yeah because the American police state will be perfectly happy with you only providing a date. You're going to wake up soon to a world you don't understand, if you don't start paying attention.
Look man, if it's a good solution it's a good solution. You're attacking things that haven't been proposed (by the bill in the OP).
I actually don't think legislation in a US state is a good way to create a technology standard so I wouldn't like to see this pass, but it's honestly the best way that I've seen to provide age verification for websites.
It puts the onus on the parents to set the date correctly and takes it off of businesses to comply by doing it themselves where privacy is definitely at risk. If this is what was implemented it would not harm privacy and it would defang the "protect the children" arguments they constantly use to justify completely destroying privacy.
You can rant and rage until you're red in the face, but those are the facts.