alt Hacker NewsIt's clear these "age verification" bills will just keep coming and it's a losing battle to try and oppose each individually.
Instead (or rather in addition to) activism we should go at it from the other end and request the introduction of a verifiably independent authority and zero knowledge protocol that will deliver a cryptographically secure boolean bit (isOver18) with no way to correlate from either end the ID or which website the bit is used for.
The alternative is IDs get collected by all these horrendous privacy fiends and sold / leaked / monetized across the board, which sounds like a dystopian nightmare.
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I would propose a variant of RFC 3514, where adult-related packets have a specified bit in the IP header. Simpler and you can filter it at the firewall.
Your 2nd paragraph is a foreign language to US representatives. A bunch of senators, like Graham and Turtle Man, brag about not using email.