alt Hacker NewsI wonder who is behind this sudden push for these age verification laws. This wasn't an issue until recently and suddenly there are not just laws in California and Colorado, but also New York and Brazil.
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ycombinator_acc • yesterday at 10:23 AM
I got the impression they were kick-started by Anglo countries (the Five Eyes, whatever you wanna call them), then gradually picked up by the rest.
merlindru • yesterday at 8:02 AM
...and Australia, and New Zealand, and the UK, and Norway, and Spain, and France, and the EU
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There is a nascent industry of AI backed surveillance now so you can be 200% sure a lot of lobbying happened in closed rooms.
And then there are the desperate attempts to cover actual pedophilia from the people in power. I'll never look at a politician or a so called member of the elites the same way again.