"...Strip away the press-conference warmth and the mechanism is cold and simple. You cannot bar under-16s from a website without checking the age of everyone who visits it. And you cannot check everyone’s age without making them prove, in some fashion, who they are. “Child safety” is the cheese in the mousetrap. The trap is the verification layer that closes behind every adult who reaches for it. ...The threat of fines worth a tenth of global revenue does not encourage platforms to verify carefully. It encourages them to verify everyone, and to keep the receipts. The intention may well be narrow. The outcome, every time, is universal. We are not required to impute bad faith. We need only read the meter."
https://labourheartlands.com/starmers-age-verification-trojan-horse-for-digital-id/
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