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Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet (nymag.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What sucks is that once these laws are in place repealing them will probably never happen. There are far too many people who will benefit financially from this to allow that to happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There are far too many people who will benefit financially from this to allow that to happen.

    Orly? Can you give me a couple of examples?

    I'm opposed to this trend myself, btw. But I just interpreted as a bit of pointless over regulation by a bunch of populist nanny-statists. You're telling me there's financial interests involved as well?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There are companies to store and process IDs on behalf on the sites. Also it will give a hell of a lot more information to marketers who will pay tons for it to sell you crap they think you need. They already have far too much information on everyone already, but this will give them even more.

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