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Re:California Governor signs law requiring online age checks by donmcronald on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:07PM (#32870644)
> Many websites have taken such an adversarial relationship to the EU's GDPR that I suspect that those same websites will block access to Californians.

That should be taken as an indicator that tech companies are acting in bad faith and they shouldn't be given the option to obtain consent. Turn it into a blanket ban IMO.

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Re:California Governor signs law requiring online age checks by srk_hn on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:33PM (#32870943)
That's an ostensibly incorrect POV to take. This is government doing what it does best: legislating things they don't understand to score cheap votes, not to solve actual problems.
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