Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality (www.techdirt.com)

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[-] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

Those who are disfavored by authoritarian governments may lose access not just to pornography, but to social media and all of these other services.

Nothing anyone can say will ever convince me that this is not the true purpose behind these laws

this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025

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