Comment by troyvit
16 hours ago
As the article says, it's not about just checking a box:
"Every OS provider must then: provide an interface at account setup collecting a birth date or age, and expose a real-time API that broadcasts the user's age bracket (under 13, 13 to 15, 16 to 17, 18+) to any application running on the system."
There is no requirement that the OS has to verify the person's ID. It literally just requires a dropdown menu to select your age bracket.
Fine, a drop-down menu, not a checkbox. They're throwing a hissy fit over a drop-down menu with 4 items.
You're missing the rest of it. It takes whatever you put in that dropdown menu and broadcasts it to the rest of the operating system including -- for instance -- your browser. The browser then uses that information to decide what to show you. The same would apply to any other app designed to receive it.
You can call what's happening in this thread a hissy fit, but how does that compare to $70 million in lobbying to get this added to operating systems? Isn't that a bit more of a fit? When you look at who is behind the bills, do you look at their history and wonder whose best interest they might have at heart?
How many other things in the operating system are like that already? Every file in your home directory, for instance?