This bill will NOT require ID uploads or any official documents. It is simply mandating a setting that upon device setup that a parent must state the age of the user using the device. That’s it.
Sounds more like a legal framework for the companies to absolve themselves of the responsibility of protecting kids if they happen to see adult content. They can point and say it’s the parents fault for not inputting the age setting correctly.
Seems like the parents would have to be vetted to make that Proclamation and their identity connected to that IP for that to happen. So in reality this is a betrayal, in a way that makes it look like it’s not a betrayal so people like you can say no it’s not like that when it is.
No one here seems to have read the article.
This bill will NOT require ID uploads or any official documents. It is simply mandating a setting that upon device setup that a parent must state the age of the user using the device. That’s it.
Sounds more like a legal framework for the companies to absolve themselves of the responsibility of protecting kids if they happen to see adult content. They can point and say it’s the parents fault for not inputting the age setting correctly.
It passed the assembly unanimously.
Seems like the parents would have to be vetted to make that Proclamation and their identity connected to that IP for that to happen. So in reality this is a betrayal, in a way that makes it look like it’s not a betrayal so people like you can say no it’s not like that when it is.
Nowhere in the bill text does it say that. Please cite your sources. The bill is less than a five minute read. https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025