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One of the first (among many dramatically) critical issues is:

> Companies, from Big Tech down to smaller platforms and messaging apps, will need to comply with a long list of new requirements, starting with age verification for their users. (Wikipedia, the eighth-most-visited website in the UK, has said it won’t be able to comply with the rule because it violates the Wikimedia Foundation’s principles on collecting data about its users.)

How would one verify age without checking personal identity.

(And who would use a service which involves identification.)

parent mdp2021 3 years ago

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