age verification shit is pretty much just a downgrade to the whole internet, even for something like youtube where you just watch videos you now have to link a phone number. barriers to entry to demand that you don't remain anonymous? extremely jewish.   > every site is going to require this. it's just the beginning. yup. people are saying > discord when it's gonna expand to google now, which connects to youtube, gmail, various other things. from there it will just become a standard. the internet is gonna become a lot less free, unless your website takes pride in it being an anonymous site it will demand your id. even twitter demands a phone number now to "prevent bot activities", despite being a free-speech site many sites will start asking for phone numbers.   > tries to do something about it > by demanding every adult id themselves on their site nope. the kids will just go and take a picture of their brother / sister / parents. age restriction will just be bypassed by anyone it's meant to protect, but it will also destroy any kind of anonymity you had online, and now oops, your online id is linked to your phone number, you've been banned for wrongthing and if you want a new online id you have to change your number, now you'll think twice about the next badthink you were about to do.
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