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Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by Bender on Monday May 25, 2026 @02:48PM (#48270255)
what do they do?

They stop trying to put everything in a different category and treat RTA as the person under the age of consent must get approval from their parent or legal guardian. Keep it simple.

Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by skybrian on Monday May 25, 2026 @03:01PM (#48270382)
That's too simple to get much adoption. It's unreasonable to expect websites to drop out of Google search.
Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by inetknght on Monday May 25, 2026 @03:24PM (#48270637)
> It's unreasonable to expect websites to drop out of Google search.

Google's doing that for them though.

Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by Bender on Monday May 25, 2026 @03:23PM (#48270629)
Google and others can adapt. RTA header? Added to potential adult or user-contributed category.
Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by skybrian on Monday May 25, 2026 @04:15PM (#48271163)
I imagine Google want to distinguish between websites that want to be blocked by SafeSearch versus websites that want to be blocked when parental controls are on? There's no reason to leave that ambiguous. Plenty of adults have SafeSearch on.

Defining a new header isn't hard; the hard part is getting consensus and adoption.

Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by Bender on Monday May 25, 2026 @04:32PM (#48271353)
For what it's worth this header has been around for a long time. It's predecessor (PICS ICRA) was too complicated and started using topics. After a while they added so many topics that even being an abbreviated header it was still massive and confusing. There were websites that people could select all the topics and what not but even then the adoption was low due to complexity and topics constantly changing on sites.

Are today's videos beheading's without blood, with blood, with or without anguish, with nudity, without nudity, etc... After a while it gets out of hand.

It turned out the internet was too dynamic so the RTA header was created to just say "adult".

Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by lazyasciiart on Monday May 25, 2026 @03:28PM (#48270676)
Right, no news sites for kids.
Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by Bender on Monday May 25, 2026 @03:35PM (#48270740)
Right, no news sites for kids.

Correct. Until parent or guardian puts in password next to the text that says "Approve this site, forever."

You gave me an idea. Maybe there could be categories similar in concept to those that exist in corporate firewalls today that say things like:

- News Category (Known to be SFW)

- News Category (That may be NSFW)

- Child friendly sites

- Social media sites

... and so on.

This could be crowd sourced, ideally in a way that can not be gamed. The masses could flag/report false claims. That, or just keep it simple. ad-hoc input of permitted sites by parent.

Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by lazyasciiart on Monday May 25, 2026 @03:47PM (#48270840)
This is a terrible idea and your proposed society is terrible. It doesn’t matter if it’s safe for work; you asked to identify sites with content that can change. Either the parent has seen and approved the content or not.
Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by Bender on Monday May 25, 2026 @04:07PM (#48271068)
This is a terrible idea and your proposed society is terrible.

I think I know what you meant and sure we can keep it simple. Site is approved by a parent or it isn't.

Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by dotancohen on Monday May 25, 2026 @05:33PM (#48271925)
What is [N]SFW under your definition? I don't think anybody has a problem with children seeing an adult heterosexual couple kissing, but what about a teenage couple? A homosexual couple? A mixed-race couple? A couple with a 40 year age gap? Audible moaning? Groping under clothes? Implied but not explicit hands touching genitals? Dripping saliva and face licking?

The problem with defining categories is that artists will do their best to defy categorization. That has been the nature of art for as long as humans have been making art.

Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by Bender on Monday May 25, 2026 @05:51PM (#48272404)
What is [N]SFW under your definition?

I do not have a proposal for that. I'm only covering the issue of sharing any personal attributes of a child or anyone with any corporations as they have proven time and time again they can not be trusted with it. If anything they have proven beyond any shadow of doubt they can not be trusted with anything.

I will leave the NSFW definitions to yourself and others. Since the W stands for Work I guess company management and HR get some say in it too. I don't know where they get their standards from.

Ages ago I worked for a company that hosted porn and their standards were uniquely liberal.

Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by jonathantf2 on Monday May 25, 2026 @06:03PM (#48272493)
There are news sites tailored for kids, like BBC Newsround (https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround)