You are absolutely right, but that doesn’t stop a shitty lawyer from suing companies for it.
We also shouldn’t have to put dumb warning labels on sleeping pills that tell people not drive cars or operate heavy machinery, but we do because a lawyer made an argument and won somehow.
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.
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