Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?

Re:Age verification for social media, the beginning of the e... by loopback_device on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @05:39PM (#48376704)

Except that the www came out of Switzerland, the first electric vehicles out of Scotland and Germany, the earliest descriptions of neural networks - also Scotland, and countless other things, like Rockets and whatnot, also out of Europe. But, sure, congrats on that ARPANet thing.

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Re:Age verification for social media, the beginning of the e... by bluebarbet on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @07:47PM (#48377798)

Final sentence was unnecessary.

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Re:Age verification for social media, the beginning of the e... by matchbok3 on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @09:03PM (#48378393)

Can you point to the stock markets and silicon valley, and tech leaders and military of those countries?

Oh, wait...

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Re:Age verification for social media, the beginning of the e... by pocksuppet on Thursday June 04, 2026 @08:49AM (#48397931)

Those are bad things to have.

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Re:Age verification for social media, the beginning of the e... by tardedmeme on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @07:17AM (#48382486)

Thank god we have "American ingenuity" to enshittify new inventions. Where would we be without that?

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