[dirtikiti]

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

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

[tylerritchie]

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]

Well yeah: Meta wrote the bill, Meta greases palms in their home state, Meta gets their bill unanimously passed.

[lyu07282]

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.

[burnt-resistor]

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

[enoint]

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

[kmijyiyxfbklao]

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

[LiEnby]

> surveillance authoritarianism.

last i checked thats what their so called "traditional values" and "conservatism" were actually.

[enoint]

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.