On one hand it is heartening that California wants to protect children.
On the other hand, California pushes the woke agenda including gay sex education for children. I don’t trust them
On the third hand, If this is done improperly then it may only serve to make lists of children, or gather the ages of adults. This will have the opposite of the intended effect and remove privacy on the internet. The worst possible outcome.
The correct way would be to require that individual pages have a code that tells the browser it is over 18 type material. Then parents could perhaps find foolproof browsers.
Yes, I know, children are smarter than parents in this respect. But that is where the work needs to go. What doesn’t need to happen is a massive data collection effort by the government of California.
But California doesn’t understand any of this.
Assholes…
Rather than encoding sites with some form of age-specific information, or even content-specific information and have browsers handle those codes, why not do what has been done for quite a while now and use specific DNS entries where the DNS sites limit access. There are a number of DNS providers that can block access to certain sites, and I’ve been using them for a couple of decades to help people keep their teenagers away from dubious information. If the parents alone have admin rights to all the devices so the kids cannot change the DNS addresses, it works.
That is what I was thinking as well. There were firewall add-ons to the browser that restricted browsing, but kids were able to get past them to easily. We just need better tech for this. It would help if a site self marked, so that it would be easier to find the rogues and block them. But don’t require adults to give personal information in order to browse the internet. Or kids for that matter.