Comment Re:Parent's phone gets dialog to approve .... (Score 1) 102
Kid wants to play sports, parent has to sign a permission slip.
Kid want to go on school trip to museum, parent has to sign a permission slip.
School nurse wants to give kid an aspirin, parent gets a phone call to OK it.
Kid want to download app from App Store, parent's phone gets a dialog asking for approval.
Printed books must be required to be enciphered such that only those wearing special glasses are permitted to read them after having been deemed worthy by the state.
Any printed books not properly enciphered must be burned immediately for the sake of the children.
The role of the state is not maximization of freedom for all but rather demanding compliance to arbitrary precepts of morality by leveraging the states monopoly on violence to insist upon child proofing of all aspects of the kingdom from anything any child might do while unaccompanied by a parent.
Parental consent must never be left up to the marketplace where services or third parties parents trust expend resources to provide curated access. Anyone and everyone who provides any software to do anything must at all times think of the children.
Where is the great injustice here?
From text of SB2420:
""App store" means a publicly available Internet website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a software application to the user of a mobile device."
Of course there isn't any injustice in requiring literally anyone operating a website that loads software (e.g. javascript) into a browser to obtain "consent" and do magical things like judge the age of the user. We all live to serve the state.