New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content, leading to backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates that a free and open internet is at stake. Roughly half of U.S. states have enacted or are advancing laws requiring platforms — including adult content sites, online gaming services, and social media apps — to block underage users, forcing companies to screen everyone who approaches these digital gates.
Who’s dumb enough to believe it was ever for child safety?
The sort of morons who shouldn’t be using the internet anyway. I miss when the internet was for nerds.
Probably most of the same people who believe ICE is only rounding up “illegals”.