Post #3475369
2026-06-29 18:31 UTC
Replies (6)
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@storm@swingset.social 2026-06-29 18:38
@aphyr@woof.group Ask if they are from Illinois and refuse to let them in if they say yes?
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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-06-29 18:34
@aphyr@woof.group Is it going to wind up being one of those things like "Are you at least 18? [ ] yes [ ] no"?
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@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net 2026-06-29 20:52
@aphyr@woof.group Well, _that's_ horrific. I suppose the usual techno-literalistic process of bad faith readings isn't going to be very interesting; do you have a sense from your reps as to what they expect site operators to do with browsers that fail to respond to that inquiry?
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@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net 2026-06-29 20:59
@aphyr@woof.group What particularly sucks is that I would _very much like_ web standards bodies (WhatWG et al) to point-blank refuse to come to consensus on an age-signalling apparatus, from a political and philosophical perspective, but I also recognize that that refusal would effectively put every operator (and particularly small ones) in a bind. >:(
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@gratdelay@woof.group 2026-06-29 23:49
@aphyr@woof.group Will the bots swamping the web have to prove they are over 18 years old?
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@jeawhiz@woof.group 2026-07-01 17:49
@aphyr@woof.group Ugh!! Pushing regulation and policy onto the operating system is so messy. One example is the whole DOJ v. Microsoft thing with the "thou shalt not include a browser in an OS". Yeah, I know that's a user space issue. The age verification thing pushing this to the OS is all about the "secure enclave" I think, which means we're regulating hardware, too. This is really bad.