@carlrichell I think that touches on the core issue in my opinion, even if we assume that everything is with good intention and that the implementation is good, there's not point in confirming age without auditing the ENTIRE internet to see if they are actually restricting their content or access all together based on it. The big tech social networks might be under scrutiny, but some random website could ignore this law forever and take advantage of the fact they can confirm the age of the user.

@carlrichell whilst I agree with this whole heartedly the one small area that I believe age verification may be helpful in society is in social media, it's clear that unfettered access to it has poisoned young minds and I see it daily in the youth I work with. In EVERY other area, age verification is useless and harmful. To which, the only real solution is for parents to make the correct effort to restrict that access.

@carlrichell To the dudes who are pushing for this, that's a feature not a bug. Dudes whose names appear in the files. Tells you everything you need to know.