Source: Law & Liberty
by Corbin K Barthold
“Current online age-verification techniques erode digital privacy: they create vectors for learning users’ identities and snooping on their browsing habits. Online age-verification laws increase the chances that, one day, we’ll have a Bork tapes-style scandal for real. The point of online age verification is to protect children. But online age verification works only if everyone does it. On the Internet, nobody knows you’re an adult until you prove it (to the extent possible; all online age-verification systems can be gamed). To establish your age, you must tender some kind of personal data, thereby placing it at risk of exposure. Online age-verification laws thus burden the First Amendment rights of adults, by hampering their ability to post and view material on the Internet in anonymity. ” (01/09/25)
https://lawliberty.org/age-verification-laws-are-a-verified-mistake/