Internet Age Verification schemes (e.g. Florida's new law)
It's important to understand that "age verification" schemes being
passed by states, ostensibly to "protect the children", won't do that
and will bring about incredible abuses.
In order to age verify children, obviously EVERYBODY of any age must
be verified, for every account, under every name or pseudonym,
ultimately on every site no matter how public or private the topic,
and before downloading any apps.
Children will find ways to work around this. They'll use the accounts
of adults, which will be openly traded. But because these age
verification systems must by definition be based on government IDs,
the verification process creates a linkage between your account names
and your actual identity, subjecting you to all manner of leaked
personal information, government abuses (think MAGA in charge), and
worse. Firms will claim their systems either don't keep this data or
can't be abused. History strongly suggests otherwise, and when courts
step in, those firms will have to do what the courts say, often in
secret, when it comes to collecting data.
Age verification is in actuality a massive Chinese-style Internet
identity tracking project -- nothing less -- and there are many
politicians in the U.S. who look with envy at how China controls their
Internet and keeps their Internet users under police state controls. -L
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--Lauren--
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