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by gzread 100 days ago
But this is actually a really good policy? It just says every OS shall have a UI to turn parental controls on or off, and an API to check if they're turned on. That's a good thing. It satisfies the reasons people wanted age verification, without actually doing age verification.
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Yes but the next step is forbidding open source OSes because they can be modified to lie on this API check.
The next step after forbidding the serving of alcohol to minors is forbidding the serving of alcohol to everyone.