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Emma Roth @ The Verge · today 10:30 EDT

Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway

In the span of a few years, age verification went from an idea to standard practice on large parts of the internet. Seeking to prevent kids from accessing porn, other inappropriate content, or social media altogether, laws mandating age-gating have spread rapidly across the globe, reaching the UK, the US, Australia, France, Brazil, and many […]

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