Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, about half the states in the US have some internet age verification law in place, and dangerous...
Luckily these kinds of measures are invariably poorly conceived and full of holes, so most of us will be able to bypass them.
Being able to bypass them or not is only half of the problem: so long as they are law, you can be “arbitrarily” persecuted and punished because of them.
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