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If anyone actually looks through the legislature and the discourse around it:
It is not age verification like you need for pornhub. You aren't giving a photocopy of your license to some org to verify you exist.
It is literally the same logic as "please enter your birthday to continue". Just say you were born on jan 1 1900 or whatever. That will then be fetchable by the app/browser to send when a site requests it.
Which... seems like a really good system? It allows people who care about what their kids do to lock down their accounts. And it provides no meaningful PII for adults (or kids whose parents don't care).
It is a REALLY stupid law but also... it is likely to get something on the books before the "You need to send us your long form birth certificate to install VLC" laws start getting pushed.
Please atleast use Jan 1 1970
Oh wow, if this is it, then it's really not bad at all - easy to setup, client side, easy to ignore, and easy enough for teens to get around it when they feel like learning how. I don't hate this, other than the potential for a dangerous slide towards ID.