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Comment Re: Not a rhetorical question (Score 1) 165

It's not a matter of being for vs. against solving that, it's a matter of not believing the problem has an adequate technical solution vs. believing in unicorns.

Why not pass a law that if a printed magazine has reason to believe the person looking at it is a child, it should refuse to open?

So publishers note that bound and printed paper has no ability to believe anything and just print the magazine as usual.

Comment Re:They should go fuck themselves (Score 1) 165

The problem is, rather than consulting with experts to see what might be possible and practical, they're trying to handwave a solution into being.

What sort of API are they hoping for? Should I add a DOB env variable to .bashrc? If it's not there, assume adult? Should the variable contain a base64 representation of time_t? YYYYMMDD?

Why would my app ever have clear and convincing evidence of anything? It's not an AI, you click the button, it does the thing the button is for.

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