The tech companies are the ones lobbing for age verification. The entire point of this scheme is mass surveillance and shifting responsibility away from big te

The tech companies are the ones lobbing for age verification. The entire point of this scheme is mass surveillance and shifting responsibility away from big tech companies. It has nothing at all to do with "protecting" kids. Preventing kids from accessing adult material is not even remotely a goal, it is a pretext. Just like every other "think of the children" argument.