Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all?
Is anything outside of reference material and news on the internet really worth visiting? I wasn’t really missing anything before social media became a thing. It’s just people arguing.
Everything has moved onto the internet so you can’t compare the 1990’s with today. Government services, businesses, there aren’t phone books anymore, you can’t find phone numbers of businesses without it. Products aren’t carried in stores anymore, or only at exorbitant prices because everyone buys them online. To just name a few things.
Is anything outside of reference material and news on the internet really worth visiting? I wasn’t really missing anything before social media became a thing. It’s just people arguing.
Everything has moved onto the internet so you can’t compare the 1990’s with today. Government services, businesses, there aren’t phone books anymore, you can’t find phone numbers of businesses without it. Products aren’t carried in stores anymore, or only at exorbitant prices because everyone buys them online. To just name a few things.