alt Hacker NewsThere is a sudden concerted international push for online age verification, and we do not know where this push originates from. That is the scariest thing about it.
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conradfr • yesterday at 6:35 PM
It's true for a lot of things in Western countries.
Evident when the fight against "hate" was suddenly everywhere, and also during covid.
ilovecake1984 • yesterday at 8:03 PM
Politicians looks to each other. There’s nothing new in that.
It's not _completely_ shrouded in mystery - it started after Facebook got slapped by the EU for irresponsible handling of underage users, and since began a heavily funded lobbying push to drag competitors down with them. https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...
Of course, it's probably also been coopted by the neverending stream of nanny-state political power grabs in both the US and EU.