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I think we'll just have to wait and see how tech companies implement this and how it's enforced. Even the study is, as the letter points out, just guidance and not enforceable and can be ignored. The bill itself contains very little beyond saying that it doesn't explicitly enforce "age gating" and extra data collection to determine age.
Also, as the letter itself points out
Would it be impossible to create separation between sites used by older teens and adults? A lot of it happens culturally anyway. I'm not as pessimistic as others are about this.
Obviously it's not impossible, it just requires sites to obtain a verifiable proof of age, i.e., a government ID.
A lot of pathological optimism in this thread, and it might not impact you (at first), but the document you're quoting explains why a lot of people are concerned:
Not disagreeing with you but where are you quoting that from? I don't see it in the letter. Am I looking at the wrong thing?
Also there is the provision to not censor anything that minors search for. I'm not saying the law is perfect mind you but
Oops, you're absolutely right about the attribution, the quote I posted above is from an earlier letter, I had too many open at once.
Unfortunately, the provision you mention is essentially a bad-faith attempt to skirt the first amendment objections, while leveraging the imposed 'duty of care' to allow State AGs to censor with impunity. From p.6 of the more recent letter:
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unnecessary, but thanks