Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, about half the states in the US have some internet age verification law in place, and dangerous...
Of course they aren’t. They’re just the least bad implementation of a terrible idea. Which seems to be more bad than I initially thought.
Great article, as usual with EFF, but now I’ll be even more depressed about the Internet’s future.