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My reading of the EU proposal has licensed third parties doing the age verification step. The gov't could threaten to revoke the license, but doing so would in
by magicalhippo 1y ago
My reading of the EU proposal has licensed third parties doing the age verification step.
The gov't could threaten to revoke the license, but doing so would inconvenience all their users, not just the target. So the third party has leverage to dismiss the gov't.
Of course lots of factors in play, but should be at least a bit better than the gov't doing the age checks.
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- LegionMammal978 1y agoAt least in the U.S., the experience is that businesses will do a lot of things if some level of government 'politely' asks them to. "This account is fraudulent, please delete it." (Or perhaps by waving the stick of "for reasons of national security".) The business doesn't really have any incentive to get in a fight over it, especially if the target wouldn't look sympathetic in the media. I haven't heard much suggesting that typical EU businesses are any different in this regard.