Source: Persuasion
by Jeffrey Cieslikowski
“Age-verification seems like a simple fix. And it is often driven by a genuine concern for kids’ safety and well-being. But it comes at a cost: age-verification threatens our anonymous speech online. As trendy as age-verification might be, it is worth taking a moment, in the year of America’s 250th anniversary, to remind ourselves of the deep history of anonymous speech in the United States—a speech right that can easily be underestimated or denigrated.” (09/11/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/think-twice-about-age-verification