• Kwakigra@beehaw.org
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    While I know why the Texas government would want to make sure children are exposed to nothing but official state propaganda, hopefully an unintended consequence of this is to put a massive hole in the monopolistic mainstream social media userbase since the uncontrollable web including the fediverse would be the only alternative in these states.

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      1 year ago

      …How is this even possible to enforce? Are they going to make websites collect scans of everyone’s ID like what PornHub was protesting?

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        The social media provider must “verify, using a commercially reasonable method” the person’s identity and the relationship to the minor.

        You cam do that through credit card probably.

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          The identity sounds easy enough (if a bit invasive). The relationship… the kid’s birth certificate? A health insurance card? A stat dec? A cheek swab? That’s a lot of effort for a parent, and will they really want to turn those details over to a social media site?

          It probably will be just a tick box.