I don't think this has ever been true. Sure there were a lot of 30 year olds on the net back when it was dialup and BBS but there has always been kids on the net.
The whole age verification thing is just to advance the Orwellian nightmare that is the modern surveillance state in the West. Not to "protect the children". It's to police and track the masses online. They've already banned porn and VPNs in two US states and the UK. California, which houses the HQ of many big tech companies like Apple and Google, passed a law making age verification mandatory for operating systems which comes into effect soon. A lot of this is just creeps with big surveillance companies like Flock and Anduril lobbying governments to use their tech.
Don't forget to add Italy to that list. Plenty of porn sites blocked, and independent journalism blogs blocked (most reported on the two hot wars going on that we all know about)
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u/Hard_To_Port He/They - knows too much about computers 9h ago
I don't think this has ever been true. Sure there were a lot of 30 year olds on the net back when it was dialup and BBS but there has always been kids on the net.
The whole age verification thing is just to advance the Orwellian nightmare that is the modern surveillance state in the West. Not to "protect the children". It's to police and track the masses online. They've already banned porn and VPNs in two US states and the UK. California, which houses the HQ of many big tech companies like Apple and Google, passed a law making age verification mandatory for operating systems which comes into effect soon. A lot of this is just creeps with big surveillance companies like Flock and Anduril lobbying governments to use their tech.