Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/after-discord-fiasco-age-check-tech-promises-privacy-by-running-locally-does-it-work/

by stalfosknight • 4 months ago

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replooda• 4 months ago

What really hurts is that, ultimately, the initiative derives from and serves the interests of the Island Man Class.

SilverElfin• 4 months ago

The solution isn’t to cave in. It’s to fight these laws in every state and nationally too. This is the result of Meta’s lobbying and also a campaign by the Heritage Foundation, because conservatives have viewed age checks as a defacto ban on porn and a pathway to ultimately ban whatever else they see as morally wrong (LGBTQ).

The worst part of this is Democrat legislators are proposing these laws even in blue states. Every single one should be recalled or challenged.

https://peq42.com/blog/meta-is-behind-age-verification/

https://www.heritage.org/big-tech/report/age-verification-wh...

mkoubaa• 4 months ago

I refuse to use any non-essential app that requires my government id and I'm not the only one.

JohnFen• 4 months ago

Nope. There is nothing online that I need so badly that I'm willing to subject myself to that kind of thing. Perhaps that means I'll be excluded from the internet entirely. So be it.

Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming

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