> The App Store Accountability Act adds age gating at the app store level
Don't forget the corporations that valiantly fought against "sideloading" to ensure this could happen. Props to them and their supporters on HN, hopefully this is what you wanted.
I’m not sure I’m against the bill since it’s implemented at the App Store level. They wanted a walled garden and became a duopoly. If we aren’t going to dismantle the walls, then at least the public has right to determine what happens at the gates.
For the same reason, I’m okay with the UK regional monopoly ISPs blocking all adult content by default, and requiring an adult user to disable the default block. It doesn’t give the ISP any more info than they already had on their customer, and puts the responsibility of fine grained monitoring of the device in the users hands.
I don't support these laws for the same reason I wouldn't support national, gendered and racial APIs. Anonymity is a fundamental human right, segregation isn't.
It hasn't even been a year since the supreme court ruled in favor of compelled speech for specific adult content and that's already expanded to any engagement with an OS. That's how you know these are being pushed by industry, there is a huge market for verified child advertising. Everyone talking about slippery slop with Texas not even a year ago, are you eating crow or caviar?
The US sure wants to collapse by sending most of the libre software foundations and companies (and infrastructure) to Canada to avoid useless regulations on software.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 28.6 ms ] threadDon't forget the corporations that valiantly fought against "sideloading" to ensure this could happen. Props to them and their supporters on HN, hopefully this is what you wanted.
What could have worked was a right to privacy, but by then the well had already been poisoned.
For the same reason, I’m okay with the UK regional monopoly ISPs blocking all adult content by default, and requiring an adult user to disable the default block. It doesn’t give the ISP any more info than they already had on their customer, and puts the responsibility of fine grained monitoring of the device in the users hands.
It hasn't even been a year since the supreme court ruled in favor of compelled speech for specific adult content and that's already expanded to any engagement with an OS. That's how you know these are being pushed by industry, there is a huge market for verified child advertising. Everyone talking about slippery slop with Texas not even a year ago, are you eating crow or caviar?
this is bieng pushed from inside the civil service in conjunction with money interests and is equivalent to a treasonous military takeover
I would argue that the traditional consequences apply
We're only in this situation because the bureaucrats were paid-off by the corporations.