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Comment by adamtaylor_13

1 day ago

What's with the recent push for age verification? This has been around forever but it seems like just recently a bunch of governments are pushing for this.

It's a cloak for digital ID disguised as child safety.

There are many way to make the internet safe for kids without removing anonymity. But the they wouldn't get what they want, would they?

A large number of entities are facing the same problem at the same time and coming to similar conclusions.

There's also a cabal that wants surveillance, but since the California law doesn't require surveillance, this isn't that. The California law just mandates a parental control feature.