The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass(theverge.com)

55 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 104 comments

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech(nonogra.ph)

885 points by arkhiver 3 months ago | 523 comments

An anonymous opinion post arguing that age verification laws in the US, Europe, and Australia are a precursor to tying online speech to people's real identities.

Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom(popsci.com)

153 points by geox 2 years ago | 176 comments

What's wrong with EU age verification? (Nothing)(blog.vrypan.net)

17 points by birdculture 3 months ago | 20 comments

EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"(cyberinsider.com)

581 points by muse900 5 months ago | 399 comments

CyberInsider news article reporting that an EU Parliamentary Research Service document described VPNs as a loophole to close in the push for online age verification.

Age verification doesn't need to be a privacy footgun(soatok.blog)

37 points by zdw 1 year ago | 37 comments

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech(nonogra.ph)

885 points by arkhiver 3 months ago | 523 comments

An anonymous opinion post arguing that age verification laws in the US, Europe, and Australia are a precursor to tying online speech to people's real identities.

Online age verification is the hill to die on(x.com)

846 points by Cider9986 6 months ago | 536 comments

An X thread by Glenn Meder arguing that online age verification is a critical fight because it requires identity verification and enables broader digital control.

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google(reddit.com)

892 points by cft 1 year ago | 520 comments

A Reddit r/degoogle post about the EU age verification app reportedly refusing to run on Android systems not licensed by Google; the page shows a network block.

The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection(spectrum.ieee.org)

1623 points by oldnetguy 8 months ago | 1225 comments

IEEE Spectrum opinion piece arguing that online age verification requirements undermine data protection and privacy for all users.

Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve(technologyreview.com)

21 points by joozio 8 days ago | 28 comments

MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd arguing that age gates on social media backfire and closing loopholes kids use will worsen things.

EU age verification app not planning desktop support(github.com)

517 points by sschueller 1 year ago | 355 comments

A closed GitHub issue on the EU age verification technical specification repo raising usability concerns, including the assumption that everyone owns a smartphone.