The latest consensus hallucination to take over our political classes is "age verification," a thing that manifestly *does not exist*. You can't "verify the age" of an internet user - you can only attempt to attribute every byte that traverses the *entire* internet to affirmatively identified persons:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/#wont-someone-think-of-the-cryptographers
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Cory Doctorow
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