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If I could leave Texas, I would. This is one of the worst places on earth in which to live. Sadly, my only hope is a pine box.

Talk about hyperbole.

How can you compare Texas to living in Mexico, Syria, Gaza, most of Africa, India, Antarctica, and tons of other places. Texas is still far better than a lot of places.

The saddest part about this law is that it won’t really change anything.
 
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And most people don't but it's irrelevant. They are still asking and collecting information and you are still visiting and entering information so what's the difference if the app store does it?

People who buy beer, cigs, porn, go to an r-rated movie, get credit cards or sign contracts have to verify their age and no one complains about that.

My point is that they are mostly useless.

Just because it has been done before doesn’t mean we need to continue doing it if it is not effective.
 
Are these not the same people that argue parents should have final say so in what their kids are taught in school, what books should be accessible to read, what vaccines are to be given? Why then are the not taking responsibility what what their kids do on their electronic devices?
 
Though that starts to get a bit awkward with older children (16, 17). That's the age where most parents will be starting to show trust and the kids will insist on some level and would be reasonable in doing so.
It is reasonable to allow them to set up their profile to reflect their true age, otherwise if they’re allowing them to go full steam ahead unmonitored, they may as well just start buying them beer too. It is a framework designed to keep majority of people who do the right thing within the protections afforded, but if the parent decides to permit full self responsibility, then that doesn’t mean they’re not still responsible nor liable for any fall out. It is common sense, really. Where a parent chooses to walk outside the lane, they obviously accept any risk to their child.
 
It's time to restart the trend on Macrumors again, Apple should pull out of China, EU, UK, Japan and Texas.
Restart? It never ended. It’s never suggested on articles with the US government trying to legislate Apple though, go into one about the EU doing it and you’ll see it posted over and over.

Must be a case of “it’s ok when we do it”.
 
It’s hilarious how half the people freaking out about privacy concerns over this new app store law are the same ones posting dance videos and conspiracy theories on TikTok from their smart fridges. You already gave your data to a Chinese app that tracks your eye movements, but sure, let’s draw the line at age verification to protect kids.
 
Nobody cares that Tim Cook’s feelings are hurt. Apple users have been asking him to resign for a long while now, due to horrible software developers and failed products, and he doesn’t listen to them, so what’s the difference. Cry yourself to sleep tonight, Timmy.

With all his cash?
 
Jeez, I have never seen so many people so opposed to making a attempt to stopping children from doing something they shouldn’t. We all know that it won’t work because kids will always have ways of getting around things they aren’t allowed to do. This is just a “look what I did to protect kids” bill. I’m willing to bet if it were someone of a different political affiliation, most people here would be cheering.
 
Maybe tattoo a bar code on kids forehead that Face ID could scan when it unlocks their phone ?
 
This is a good start but it only applies to apps. It won’t stop children accessing inappropriate content via the internet
 
I think this is another way for Texas to make money. All as Texas needs is to catch a few violations and then Texas can sue Apple and / or Google for lots of money.

It almost sounds like the EU :).
Texas exists only to put non-Christians in prison. And the Christians have to be of a certain type. Most of the denominations you've heard of are excluded.
 
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If only Apple had allowed third party app installs, buried in settings, with multiple scare alerts, popups, reboots required...maybe none of this legislation would have happened.
 
You mean like the democrats suing every Trump decision they don’t like.
The immigrants, universities, law firms, broadcasters and others who have sued have done so in direct response to actions he or his regime have taken against them. Considering that for the universities and law firms and broadcasters (and at least some of the immigrants) the regime’s actions have been attacks upon one or more constitutional and/or human rights, the comparison you’re making is a ridiculous one.
 
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