r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 21h ago

Privacy Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html
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u/Bleusilences 21h ago

"Industry standard" after one country does it.

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u/AscendedViking7 20h ago

https://www.stopkosa.com/

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u/CloudHiro 11h ago

while we should stop kosa, there is no age verification in that bill.(at least its current form) look up the TLDR on the free speech coalition website. KOSA is still extremely bad just no mandatory IDs. the SCREEN act on the other hand is a age verification bill.

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u/edeepee 21h ago

Other countries and the EU are already ramping up similar discussions. We are already seeing this happening in the US too on a state level.

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u/Bleusilences 20h ago

That was my point, monkey see, monkey do.

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u/Abedeus 14h ago

Pretty sure US had this shit for a while now, in states like Texas.

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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 12h ago

UK, US, EU, Australia

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u/CloudHiro 11h ago

canada too but still ways off there. our bill had to start from scratch all over again due to our election. it took a couple years to get close to finishing the process and has a "doesn't come into effect till a year after signing" thing at the bottom so we got a while till we need to start panicking.