Comment by godelski
3 days ago
>> Be a bit more serious now.
> The serious answer is in the next line.
> ...
> Again "Some totally different system could endanger people, but this one doesn't."
>> If you want me to take you seriously you have to respond with something better than "trust me bro".
I do have a hard time taking you seriously
> If widely implemented, a parent can set a single toggle and then the accounts their kids make will all be appropriately restricted.
HOW
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434546
Up here you wrote two options.
People keep telling you option 1 is the correct one, and that it's not actually useless.
You keep describing privacy problems that only exist with option 2.
This law is not option 2. Stop interpreting people as if they're badly defending option 2. They're not.
> HOW
They take an OS where only admins can change the age setting. They set the age on a non-admin account, which they give their child access to. The OS passes the age setting along to programs, which pass it along to services that need to restrict behavior.
This is not the same as how it works today. It's impossible for a parent to do this today. The best they can do is try to keep track of every account their child has and dig through the settings manually.