alt Hacker NewsContinually surprised by politicians wanting an OS to do what a parent should be doing. Why not just mandate that all devices with access control capabilities implement parental controls, and then mandate that all adults enable controls before handing a device to a minor? For devices that are incapable of user access control, the same rules as a knife, chainsaw or gun apply.
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Only wealthy parents (upper middle class or better) have the time or energy to do anything other than work, put food on the table, and do basic child care.
Most parents lack the technical expertise to police digital devices.
This isn’t so heavy handed. The purpose of age signaling is so that a parent can set in one place an age, and then federal privacy protections under COPPA and state protections under the AADC kick in.
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