"protecting" children by providing specific ages to data harvesters.

as per usual, liberal policy doing the exact opposite thing they claim it does.

tylerritchie 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

for the california legislation there were no "nay" votes. it's disapointing this performatively protective stance permeates both dominant right-of-global-center parties in America, but it is "all of them"

	▲	wpm 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Well yeah: Meta wrote the bill, Meta greases palms in their home state, Meta gets their bill unanimously passed.
	▲	lyu07282 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Pretty much the same laws in red and blue states yeah. It always gets confusing when Americans use the word liberal, everyone is a liberal, it never meant your liberty.

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burnt-resistor 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's not a liberal policy, it's an illiberal one bending the knee to feudal techbros.

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enoint 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's quite conservative. Liberalism means I can use my device with no laws in between.

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kmijyiyxfbklao 4 days ago | parent [-]

Not conservative (there's nothing traditional about this) or liberal, just surveillance authoritarianism.

	▲	LiEnby 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> surveillance authoritarianism. last i checked thats what their so called "traditional values" and "conservatism" were actually.
	▲	enoint 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In the past, children were not allowed their own phone. To be particularly cautious, smartphones have not proven a net good; and we're 20 years in.