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All the govt needs to do is send fines to offenders and the industry will be forced to implement one or more solutions. The govt doesn't care how you verify ag

• wmf 1y ago
  Experience with GDPR and DSA shows that the fines lag years behind the abuses.
• crote 1y ago
  And how well has this worked in practice? How would you even identify violations, if you're not requiring websites to store the user's real-world identity? Large websites do not care even the slightest bit about how accurate the verification method is. They have zero incentive to genuinely get rid of underage users. If anything, they want to keep them - they are prime advertising real estate! Websites have every incentive to implement the age check in the cheapest and most half-baked way possible. As long as they are able to prove on paper that they are doing some form of age verification, they have met their requirements. Got a 90% false positive rate? Working as intended! The only people getting fines are the small websites who can't afford to pay a 3rd party verification service. This'll shut down your local hobbyist communities, which only drives more visitors to the large megacorp websites.