So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully government controlled internet.
Not ads everywhere, invasive data collection, AI slop flooding any and all search results, fascist propaganda at every corner…
No really, the internet was amazing before that!
Seriously though, the internet was already long dead, and if you know how to find the few places that are not too rotten, then you’ll manage to avoid age verification as well. There is a lot of concerns to have for the state of the internet, but this is a small problem compared to things that are already there, and already make the whole web unbearable and unusable. LLMs are a much bigger problem for example.
This is a larger problem than ads and LLMs. It is a new level of invasive data connection and kills anonymity on any site that goes along with it. This is really bad even considering how things have been.
Yeah because that’s what kills the internet.
Not ads everywhere, invasive data collection, AI slop flooding any and all search results, fascist propaganda at every corner…
No really, the internet was amazing before that!
Seriously though, the internet was already long dead, and if you know how to find the few places that are not too rotten, then you’ll manage to avoid age verification as well. There is a lot of concerns to have for the state of the internet, but this is a small problem compared to things that are already there, and already make the whole web unbearable and unusable. LLMs are a much bigger problem for example.
This is a larger problem than ads and LLMs. It is a new level of invasive data connection and kills anonymity on any site that goes along with it. This is really bad even considering how things have been.