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Aurornisyesterday at 3:19 PM0 repliesview on HN

Reminder that any regulation that depends on age is a trigger forcing ID checks for everyone.

You can’t put a restriction on people under X years without gathering information about everyone’s age. You can’t confirm everyone’s age without some ID check. You can’t do an ID check based on anonymous tokens (too easily shared) so every age check mechanism has some ID revealing step, either to the company or to a 3rd party like a government entity (which will pinky swear they’re not looking at the data).