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I believe so, the aim is to try and protect children from pornography – which seems well intentioned to me whatever you believe of the technical feasibility or

• RankingMember 8y ago
  Oh what bureaucratic atrocities have been committed in the name of protecting children. The phrase "protect children" is practically a dog whistle now- whenever I hear of the government moving to "protect children" there's inevitably a company or companies behind it whose services the government will now be using to "protect" said children.
  • etatoby 8y ago
    As mentioned above by @adwww: > Mindgeek lobbied hard for this. They (owners of Pornhub etc) are the government's approved age verifiers, so are in theory now in charge of access to all the other porn sites.