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Re:I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age... by mijoharas on Saturday March 14, 2026 @10:33AM (#47377106)
To me that's a geo-ip lookup on the online service, which they kinda need to do anyways so seems fine?

(if there are further restrictions then it gets messy, but I feel like that's the current state of things anyways? at least for online services which I'm mostly speaking about here.)

Mostly my point is I don't think attestation is required. I think that responsibility should fall upon parents, and I don't want to have to give my ID to any online sites, because I don't remotely trust them to keep that safe. I'm less worried about them storing a number I send them about how old I am.

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Re:I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age... by qup on Saturday March 14, 2026 @11:41AM (#47377790)
There's ~195 countries with 195 sets of laws.

And 50 US states.

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Re:I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age... by mijoharas on Saturday March 14, 2026 @12:46PM (#47378483)
Yeah, and frankly if you have a porn site (for example) you already need to deal with the different country restrictions.

Having no restrictions would be great, but since a bunch of countries are passing these laws I'd appreciate having a minimally invasive version instead.

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