
The Death of Digital Anonymity: Why Age Verification is a Privacy Disaster
Mandatory age verification laws are destroying online anonymity and privacy under the guise of child safety, creating a dangerous 'papers, please' internet culture.
Policies and technologies requiring users to prove their age or identity before accessing online services, and the privacy, civil liberties, and practical implications of such mandates.

Mandatory age verification laws are destroying online anonymity and privacy under the guise of child safety, creating a dangerous 'papers, please' internet culture.

Meta is secretly spending billions to lobby for device-level surveillance laws that track user age while exempting its own platforms from the regulations.
Ageless Linux is a project of deliberate civil disobedience that uses a Debian-based script to challenge the legality and ethics of California's mandatory age-verification laws.

The author would rather abandon most online services and rely on self-hosting than comply with mandatory identity or age verification.