That's the most important step, do not comply. Do not verify your age.

Windscribe has a VPN where you can pay $3 USD for unlimited traffic to 2 countries of your choice. Make them any country not doing this garbage.

Remember when we scoffed at South Korea for implementing an online license? Where here is ours. And I'm tired of pretending it isn't.

I heard Facebook was funding this in the US.

Whether true or not IDK, but it would not surprise me. At all! Big tech LOVES expensive and difficult regulations. That's b/c they have deep pockets. Small competitors don't. Big Tech can spin up huge compliance teams. And legions of engineers. That cements their monopoly. It squeezes out alternatives. It can squeeze out OSS done by volunteers! Who ofc cannot afford big dollar lawyers and compliance teams.

Meta makes more money eeach year than the GDP of Morocco! And it's only 1/3 lap behind like New Zealand or Hungary. Smaller competitors do not have bloody sovereign nation levels of revenue.

Maybe it's time to de-digitize and go back outdoors and read paper books.

My life would not be worse without car videos.

It's more than 5 eyes countries, it's all of europe too. France already did one, the rest are trying to follow suit. Look at the chatcontrol bullshit, that trojan horse was rejected by the populations for the umpteenth time so they redesigned it as a trojan sheep of age controls and bringing it behind the walls of liberal democracy.

Meta is funding age verification efforts, not social media bans. Those do two different things. Meta doesn’t want to prevent young people from accessing social media, they just want cover for when they get sued for allowing minors to access certain things, so age verification laws pass the buck to the government.

I’m convinced social media bans are primarily driven by the Zionist lobby, as well as others who want to see access to information limited (the rich and powerful writ large, as they have much harder time controlling social media than they do traditional media). An entire generation across the globe despises Israel as they watched a genocide live-streamed to them via social media. So they want to cut off the youth’s access to information to prevent that from ever happening again.