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Age verification doesn’t work
The Scam of Age Verification - PORNBIZ.COM
AV is instantly and effortlessly circumvented: porn remains accessible through search engines, social media, messaging apps, file-sharing (direct and peer-to-peer), VPNs, proxies, and an astronomical number of adult sites — it’s conservative to estimate there are over a million. We also expect that at some point in the future (though it may take years) — especially once parents realize they’ve been SCAMMED, that their children are no safer online, and that charlatans lied to them all along — AV regulations will be exported to devices and app stores, while remaining an oglibation for platforms, effectively forcing users to identify themselves over and over again. The European Union As you may have heard, the EU has passed far-reaching laws to supervise and control internet companies, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), which imposes extra obligations on so-called Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs).
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