In a blog post Richell notes that the New York version as far worse since it “explicitly forbids self-reporting and leaves the allowed methods to regulations written by the Attorney General” and so developers of operating systems and devices would have to have more than just your date of birth to put you into some age bracket like the California law seems to allow.
These types of laws seem to be popping up around the US. How long until this plague spreads to other countries?
And it’s downright fiendish that a 100% imaginary thing like money decides who lives and who dies, but that’s the world we live in.
It’s not that you’re wrong, it’s just that there are very few paths to a better solution. Perhaps the local people’s militia should take all children at birth and raise them? Until that time it’d be neat if parents had a simple, affordable way to stop their eight-year-old from seeing hardcore pornography.