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Re:Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Commen... by defen on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:26PM (#32667892)
> An online service, product, or feature that has design elements that are known to be of interest to children, including, but not limited to, games, cartoons, music, and celebrities who appeal to children.

So if you write an extremely technical blog that happens to include a cartoon avatar, is your blog directed at children? Example: everything on this blog https://gankra.github.io/blah/deinitialize-me-maybe/

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Re:Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Commen... by r00fus on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:46PM (#32668137)
I'm not an content segmentation expert, but this does not look like it's child-related content at all. The legislation clauses may seem fuzzy but if this were my blog I wouldn't be worried.
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Re:Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Commen... by defen on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @05:53PM (#32668841)
> does not look like it's child-related content at all

If you're defining "child" to mean 5 year olds, I completely agree. But I'm almost certain that there are 17 year olds out there who are world-class Rust programmers who are reading that blog.

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Re:Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Commen... by kbelder on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @07:58PM (#32669941)
Ever seen a kid post a question to Stack Overflow because they're learning programming and have a question, and they make the mistake of mentioning their age?

"Sorry kid. We're deleting your question and banning you."

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Re:Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Commen... by nimih on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:50PM (#32668177)
Yeah, maybe. I certainly hope that, given how great Gankra's writing is, the business that is running their blog does not end up fined many thousands of dollars due to some stupid California law.
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