Selecting an age choice from a drop down is in no way verification.
replyThe original post was low effort flame baiting. There's an argument to be made that it should be ignored, but it's hard to say.
If it must be ignored, then it exists. The bill proposes age verification. You may think the measures employed are weak or trivial, and I would agree, but the bill proposes age verification.
replyThe bill attempts to move age related signals from sending a scan of your passport to facebook to your own operating system attesting something.
replyWhy do I keep proposing things but they fail to exist and I can't ignore my failures?
replyAh we should be happy about a bad law because it's enforcement mechanism is weak? That's twice-bad: undermines the strength and meaning of Law, and aligns Law with the bad.
replyWhen the law and it's execution are undermined and weak, it becomes the cudgel of fickle changing power, i.e. it is applied selectively and it means nothing to people except when they are being beat in the head with it, at which point they only regret having been caught, successfully undermining the social and political fabric of a nation.
Having a bad law with a weak enforcement mechanism isn't quite the thing to be boasting about you seem to think it is.