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unselect5917yesterday at 9:08 PM0 repliesview on HN

We simply don't need online age verification. It's not the state or private business' job to parent children. It's their parents job.

This is not only unnecessary, but will with 100% certainty lead to negative downstream affects, either via leaks, or the state being able to find people for things that aren't crimes once they're adults.

There's simply no good reason for it that outweighs the bad. But what it really boils down to is completely unnecessary.