It depends. If the law says "you must perform such-and-such steps to verify age" then no, they don't care if you can counter it. If the law says "you must use an approach that is at least x% effective" then yes they do care if enough people counter it.

We already had a half-assed solution, where websites would require you to press the button that says "I am over 18". Clearly somebody decided that wasn't good enough. That person is not going to stop until good enough is achieved.

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mjevans 4 hours ago | parent [-]

How about just requiring browser, OS vendors, and phone makers to give parents real child accounts that are easy to use and keep kids off the Internet?

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zythyx 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are a lot of actual solutions that could be implemented that don't invade privacy, but that's the point. These rules are all designed TO invade your privacy. They're designed for you to give up your online anonymity and make you accountable for your speech and actions online.

	▲	giantrobot 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> They're designed for you to give up your online anonymity and make you accountable for your speech and actions online. They're designed destroy anonymity to give the in group pretext to persecute the out group. It will be propagandized as accountability but it will be anything but.

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GuB-42 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would rather avoid having the government decide what I should run on my devices, private companies are already bad enough.

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mattnewton 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm becoming increasingly cynical that the lack of privacy in online communication is what most of the sponsors of these bills are after, and people thinking of the real harms to children are useful to them.