Cory Doctorow on Nostr: This comes at enormous cost. It is a gift to every future dictator, every identity ...

This comes at enormous cost. It is a gift to every future dictator, every identity thief, and every would-be sexual exploiter of children, who will have access to the hacked, leaked, and badly secured troves of data that this doomed effort produces.

Yes, *doomed*. Because even when it comes to kids, "age verification" is just a way of convincing young people to familiarize themselves with VPNs.

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